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ANTIBIOTICS-BASEL
Volume 12, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics12030429
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dairy cows; antimicrobials; selective dry cow treatment; teat sealant; udder health; subclinical mastitis
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This retrospective cross-sectional study evaluates the true effect of antibiotic dry cow treatment (DCT) on intramammary infection (IMI) cure in dairy cows during the dry period (DP). The study concludes that the DP season and the category of causative pathogens significantly influence the cure rate, while antibiotic DCT only shows significant effects in combination with certain pathogen categories.
Antimicrobials are widely used to cure intramammary infections (IMI) in dairy cows during the dry period (DP). Nevertheless, the IMI cure is influenced by many factors and not all quarters benefit from antimicrobial dry cow treatment (DCT). To evaluate the true effect of antibiotic DCT compared to self-cure and the role of causative pathogens on the IMI cure, a retrospective cross-sectional study was performed. The analysis included 2987 quarters infected at dry-off (DO). Information on DCT, causative pathogens, somatic cell count, milk yield, amount of lactation, Body Condition Score, and season and year of DO were combined into categorical variables. A generalized linear mixed model with a random cow, farm and year effect and the binary outcome of bacteriological cure of IMI during the DP was conducted. In the final model, a significant effect (p < 0.05) on DP cure was seen for the DO season and the category of causative pathogens (categories being: Staphylococcus aureus, non-aureus staphylococci, streptococci, coliforms, 'other Gram-negative bacteria', 'other Gram positive bacteria', non-bacterial infections and mixed infections), while antibiotic DCT (vs. non-antibiotic DCT) only showed a significant effect in combination with the pathogen categories streptococci and 'other Gram-positive bacteria'.
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