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Journal of Dairy Science Vol. 85 No. 10 2589-2599
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Influence of Dry Period Bacterial Intramammary Infection on Clinical Mastitis in Dairy Cows

M. J. Green*, L. E. Green*, G. F. Medley*, Y. H. Schukken{dagger} and A. J. Bradley{ddagger}

* Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK.
{dagger} Department of Population Medicine and Diagnostic Sciences, College of Veterinary Medicine,Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 14853, USA.
{ddagger} Department of Clinical Veterinary Science, University of Bristol, Langford House, Langford, Bristol, BS40 5DT, UK.

Corresponding author:
M. J. Green; e-mail:
martin{at}greenl.swinternet.co.uk.

Milk samples were taken from 1920 quarters (480 cows, six herds) on four occasions to examine the relationship between quarter level intramammary infection (IMI) during the dry period and clinical mastitis in the next lactation. All quarters were sampled at drying off and within 1 wk of calving, and two quarters from each cow were sampled both 0 to 7 and 8 to 14 d before calving. Milk samples were collected from all cases of clinical mastitis during the following lactation. Logistic regression models were developed to investigate the associations between IMI present during the sampling period and clinical mastitis. The probability of a quarter succumbing to clinical mastitis increased when Streptococcus dysgalactiae, Streptococcus faecalis, Escherichia coli, or Enterobacter spp. were cultured at drying off and when Escherichia coli, coagulase-positive staphylococcus, Serratia spp., or Streptococcus faecalis were cultured in two out of three late dry and post-calving samples. Quarters from which Corynebacterium spp. were isolated at drying off were at an increased risk of clinical mastitis, whereas the presence of Corynebacterium spp. in the late dry and post-calving samples was associated with a reduction in the risk of clinical mastitis. The risk of mastitis for specific pathogens increased if the same species of bacteria that had caused mastitis was isolated at least twice in the late dry and post-calving samples. Kaplan-Meier survival plots indicated that clinical mastitis associated with dry period infections was more likely to occur earlier in lactation than clinical mastitis not associated with dry period infections. There was evidence of quarter susceptibility to IMI or the possibility that infection with one organism led to clinical mastitis with another.

Key Words: dry period • intramammary infection • mastitis

Abbreviation key: 2-C = the time period from 2 wk before calving to 1 wk after calving




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