Mycoplasma-bovis-induced mastitis in cattle in Denmark
Friis, N.F.
Nordisk Veterinaermedicin 36(9-10): 324-325
1984
ISSN/ISBN: 0029-1579 PMID: 6514571 Document Number: 99
This organism was responsible for a new form of mastitis which appeared on Als Island in Spring 1984. Large numbers of M. bovis were found in the milk of 13 of 20 cows with mastitis, in 5 herds. After the outbreak had subsided, M. bovis was still present in 10 of 227 samples of bulked milk. This indicated the presence of symptomless shedders in at least 3 herds, from which clinically affected cows had been removed. Since 1981 M. bovis had also been recovered from 9 (1.3%) of 676 pneumonic calf lungs.
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