Udder Health and Communication (eBook)

Preface.- Keynotes.- National mastitis control schemes: experiences from implementation of a nationwide scheme in Great Britain; M.J. Green et al.- Countdown Downunder: development led innovation in a national mastitis control program; J.F. Penry.- The role of economics in motivating farmers to improve udder health; A.W. Stott.- Effective communication to improve udder health: can social science help?; C.J. Garforth.- Part 1. Udder health programs and campaigns.- Effects of health and welfare planning on the use of antibiotics and udder health in European dairy farms; S. Ivemeyer et al.- The Danish udder health campaign: our milk – a pure pleasure; J. Katholm, T.W. Bennedsgaard.- ‘DEMO project udder health’: a first step towards a better udder health and milk quality in Flanders (Belgium) ; S. Piepers et al.- Improvement of udder health following implementation of herd health plans in organic dairy farms: results of a pilot study in Germany; S. March et al.- The effect of a national control program on mastitis occurrence in the Netherlands; B.H.P. van den Borne et al.- €uroMilk mastitis control programme – a pilot study; F. Mc Coy, C. Devitt.- CellCheck-a national initiative; F. Mc Coy, J. O’Flaherty.- Preventive animal health concepts in organic dairy farming: results of an
interdisciplinary intervention study on mastitis and metabolic disorders in Germany; J. Brinkmann et al.- Online mastitis survey in Flanders, Belgium: first descriptive results; P. Passchyn et al.- Part 2. New approaches in mastitis control.- Bulk milk quality: can it be improved by dairy farm audits?; A.G.J. Velthuis et al.- Internet data services from maritime quality milk: tools for tracking milk quality; G.P. Keefe.- Systems analysis of high somatic cell counts on dairy farms; Y.H. Schukken et al.- Part 3. Motivation and communication strategies.- A Bayesian approach demonstrating that incorporation of practitioners’ clinical beliefs into research design is crucial for effective knowledge transfer; H.M. Higgins et al.- Enhancing udder health with clinical communication skills: evidence based communication frameworks for the 22 century; C.L. Adams, J.J. Coe.- Udder health management improvement: Insights from agent-based modeling; N.I. Valeeva, T. Verwaart.- Usage of milking gloves and teat sealer on German dairy farms; C. Fischer-Tenhagen et al.- Communication research from other healthcare disciplines and its application to udder-health management; J.B. Coe, C.L. Adams.- Attitudes with regard to animal management of farmers with an automatic milking system and their relationship with udder health; H. Hogeveen et al.- Farmer-veterinarian communication in the new Danish herd health program: changing responsibilities in relation to mastitis treatment and udder health promotion; M. Vaarst, I.C. Klaas.- Dairy farmers’ knowledge, attitude and behaviour towards udder health in Switzerland; B.H.P. van den Borne et al.- Impact of communication strategies for milkers on udder health program; E. Izak et al.- Part 4. The effective advisor.- Potentials and limitations of systematic clinical examinations in farmer-veterinarian collaboration for improved udder health in the new Danish herd health program; I.C. Klaas et al.- Veterinary on-farm counselling on dairy farms: the veterinarians’ vision; M. Derks et al.- Organizing external communication in the veterinary practice; J.L. Kleen et al.- Presenting uncertainty and variability to the decision maker: A computer program that uses Monte Carlo simulations to improve the management of the dry period; A. Madouasse et al.- Dairy farmer and the veterinarian: an issue of communication; P. Håkansson et al.- Part 5. Training to improve udder health.- Bilingual trainings for milkers in New York State: a success for quality milk; C. Gutierrez-Solano et al.- A coordinated udder health training strategy in Quebec, Canada; H. Poirier et al.- Focus courses; H. Landin et al.- Part 6. Economics.- Ex-ante assessment of profitability of a new control plan for mastitis as a motivation tool for dairy farmers; N. Bareille et al.- Costs and benefits of mastitis management measures on individual dairy farms; F. van Soest et al.- Estimating the impact of mastitis on the profitability of Irish dairy farms; U. Geary et al.- The effect of udder health on cow fertility: understanding the costs; C.D. Hudson et al.- A partial budget analysis to estimate the economics of a mastitis vaccination program; A. Lago et al.- Determination of economic loss from depressed udder health; M. Behr.- Part 7. Mastitis diagnostics.- Characterization of MRSA from bulk tank milk of dairy herds using a commercial microarray; K. Kreausukon et al.- Mastitis diagnostics: qPCR for Staphylococcus aureus genotype B in bulk tank milk; H.U. Graber, R. Boss.- Identification of coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species by gas chromatography; M-È Paradis et al.- Real time PCR values for mastitis pathogens – relations to milk quality and herd characteristics in Danish dairy herds; T.W. Bennedsgaard, J. Katholm.- The use of strain typing as an on farm tool to highight particular points of interest in the control of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis; D.G.J. Prins et al.- Estimation of the diagnostic accuracy of a multiplex real-time PCR assay and
bacteriological culture for four bovine intramammary pathogens; M.-È. Paradis et al.- Part 8. Treatment.- Promoting judicious antibiotic use: On-farm culture-based treatment strategies; K. MacDonald et al.- Efficacy of the selective treatment of clinical mastitis based on on-farm culture results; A. Lago et al.- Field study on acute mastitis with SIRS and different treatment regimes; L. Podstatzky et al.- Efficacy of two fresh cow subclinical mastitis treatment programs; A. Lago et al.- Effect of the combination of Tylan 200R & Penicillin G in the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis; S. Simjee et al.- Use of Tylan 200R for the treatment of mastitis caused by Staphylococcus aureus and/or Streptococcus uberis; S. Simjee et al.- Therapeutic effects of lactation treatment of bovine subclinical Staphylococcus aureus mastitis with penicillin; A.T. Duse et al.- In vitro activity profile of a kanamycin and cefalexin combination against coagulasenegative staphylococci and correlation between MIC and disk zone sizes; C. Pillar, L. Goby.- Part 9. Treatment evaluation.- Monitoring treatment outcomes: understanding and managing expectations; A.J. Bradley et al.- Use of in-line measurements of somatic cell count to evaluate treatment efficacy of subclinical bovine Staphylococcus aureus mastitis ; M. Albrechtsen et al.- ‘Therapy evaluation’: a useful tool for practitioners; K. Huijps et al.- Dynamics of udder infection and effect of dry cow therapy validated by test day samples; T.W. Bennedsgaard, J. Katholm.- Part 10. Infectious pressure.- Subclinical mastitis in Dutch dairy heifers in early lactation and associated risk factors; I.M.G.A. Santman-Berends et al.- Risk factors associated with bacteriological quality of bulk tank milk in the Netherlands; R.G.M. Olde Riekerink et al.- The efficacy of two iodine teat dips based on naturally occurring new intramammary
infections; A. Ceballos-Marquez et al.- Manageable risk factors associated with incidence and elimination of Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections; S. Dufour et al.- Factors influencing average herd somatic cell count in France in 2005 and 2006; D. Raboisson et al.- Risk factors associated with intramammary infections caused by the more pathogenic CNS-species; A. De Visscher et al.- Management of udder-thigh dermatitis on dairy cattle: epidemiological and bacteriological data; C. Roy et al.- Survey of bulk tank milk from all Danish dairy herds in 2009 and 2010 with realtime PCR; J. Katholm, T. Bennedsgaard.- Bedding conditioners for reduction of infectious pressure by mastitis pathogens –does their use make sense?; S. Ruebcke et al.- Epidemiological and microbiological characteristics of Streptococcus uberis as mastitis pathogen in Swiss dairy herds; U.K. Berger et al.- Part 11. Host resistance.- Immunological response to an experimental intramammary inoculation with a
killed Staphylococcus aureus strain in vaccinated and non-vaccinated lactating dairy cows; K. Deberdt et al.- Feasibility of high immune response (HIR) technology as a health management tool to characterize immune response profiles of dairy cattle; L. Wagter-Lesperance et al.- Polymorphism screening and association study of CXCR1 with udder health in dairy heifers; J. Verbeke et al.- Genomic regions associated with somatic cell score in dairy cattle; S. Wijga et al.- Efficacy of a Staphylococcus aureus biofilm-embedded bacterin against coagulasenegative staphylococci intramammary infections in dairy cows; M. Noguera et al.- Effect of introducing OrbeSeal into a dry cow management programme and the impact on farm economics; R.E. White et al.- Part 12. Milking machine and milking technique.- Udder health in herds with automatic milking; H. Landin et al.- Alert preferences of dairy farmers working with automatic milking systems; L.J. Rijkaart et al.- The role of sensor measurements in treating mastitis on farms with an automatic milking system; W. Steeneveld et al.- Influence of milk yield and take-off settings on milking parlour performance and udder health; R. Ginsberg.- Bacterial migration through teat canal related to liner action; D. Forbes, W. Gehm.- Classification of mouthpiece chamber vacuum records in milking-time tests; O. Rønningen.- Key messages for an efficient udder preparation routine; X. Goossens et al.- Effects of material, shape and mouthpiece venting on liner performance; S.A.G. Gomez et al.- Wearing gloves for milking in Western New York: To wear or not to wear?; A. Ceballos-Marquez et al.- New technology for vacuum-logging during milking helps advisor; E. Postma.- The world of post milking teat disinfectants: features, uses and risks; T.C. Hemling et al.- Index.- Authors.