Economics of mastitis and mastitis control

Vet Clin North Am Food Anim Pract. 1993 Nov;9(3):421-34. doi: 10.1016/s0749-0720(15)30611-3.

Abstract

Mastitis is the most costly disease of dairy cows. The major economic loss of all forms of mastitis results from reduced milk production. Because of the difficulty in controlling environmental mastitis organisms, mastitis will maintain this role in the foreseeable future.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
  • Cattle
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Dairying / economics*
  • Dairying / methods
  • Female
  • Mastitis, Bovine / drug therapy
  • Mastitis, Bovine / economics*
  • Mastitis, Bovine / prevention & control*
  • Vaccination / economics
  • Vaccination / veterinary

Substances

  • Anti-Bacterial Agents