5. Most farms have mixed infections… 2/3 of these included both a Gram -ve and a Gram +ve organism That’s a total of 42% of all herds! (Farmfile Data 2004)
14. Cepravin has been proven to speed up natural teat sealing (Williamson JH et al.) weeks 1 3 5 7 9 11 13
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16. New infections post teat sealant 11 E. coli 81 All major pathogens 11 Strep. other 11 Strep. uberis 2 Strep. dysgalactiae 9 Staph. aureus New infections Pathogen
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19. Cepravin– the only dry cow tube licensed to reduce cell counts (Cepravin data sheet)
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Notas del editor
Contagious not as important, now environmental. E.coli is topical, but doesn’t have the impact of S.uberis on whole farm SCC….se next slides