A strategy for a mastitis control programme

Authors: Whittlestone WG, Reichmuth J, Tolle A
Publication: New Zealand Veterinary Journal, Volume 24, Issue 4, pp 47-56, Apr 1976
Publisher: Taylor and Francis

Animal type: Cattle, Livestock, Production animal, Ruminant
Subject Terms: Bacterial, Biosecurity, Disease control/eradication, Epidemiology, Mammary gland/udder, Mastitis, Infectious disease, Milk
Article class: Scientific Article

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Abstract: A mastitis control programme is essentially a biological regulatory system involving the three essential components of any control mechanism : (1) A signal from a detector indicating departure from normality (2) The interpretation of the signal (diagnosis) (3) A feed-back signal to the origin of the detection signal indicating corrective action. It is evident from this that the first essential of a control scheme is a definition of normality so that any detector may be set at a meaningful level of sensitivity. In the following it is proposed to examine the biological phenomena associated with mastitis with the object of defining the disease in a way useful to a control system…

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