Apparent Efficacy of Blanket Clinical Mastitis Treatment

Abstract

Efficacy of a mastitis treatment depends largely upon the mastitis agent. Yet, a standard mastitis treatment protocol is used on many dairies to decrease the risk of drug residues in milk and because of logistical problems associated with obtaining culture results in a timely manner. However, blanket mastitis treatment regimens result in cases of clinical mastitis being improperly treated. The hypothesis is that over 50% of clinical mastitis cases are treated inappropriately.