Science news articles about 'bovine mastitis'

  • New discovery could aid development of elusive bovine mastitis vaccine

    ... , have discovered that Streptococcus uberis – a major cause of bovine mastitis – uses the enzyme SrtA to anchor at its surface ... about this is that we've discovered elements of one of the main culprits in bovine mastitis that could actually lead to a vaccine in the future ...
  • Bovine Mastitis: Could A Vaccine Be On The Way?

    ... alone it has been estimated that around 12m doses of antibiotic are used annually to control and treat mastitis in cattle ...
  • New, more effective nisin antibiotics combat superbugs and food diseases

    ... ingredient in a number of commercial products that are used in the treatment of bovine mastitis. From a veterinary perspective, enhanced nisin ... specific activities against the bacteria associated with bovine mastitis are a welcome addition to the current antibiotics ...
  • How probiotics can prevent disease

    ... animal models of disease that have human counterparts – bovine mastitis, porcine salmonellosis (a gastrointestinal disease ... . In another mechanism, Lactococcus lactis could be used to treat mastitis by eliciting an immune response that overwhelmed the infectious ...
  • Rare toxic algae identified

    ... for industry. "Prototheca infection is known to cause bovine mastitis in cattle – an inflammatory disease of the udder that costs the dairy industry millions of pounds each ...
  • New strain of MRSA discovered

    ... in milk from dairy cows while researching mastitis (a bacterial infection which occurs in the cows' udders ... researching S. aureus, a bacterium known to cause bovine mastitis. Despite the strain being able to grow ...
  • New antibiotic could make food safer and cows healthier

    ... , also has potential to be a boon to the dairy industry as a treatment for bovine mastitis. The antibiotic nisin occurs naturally ... applications for geobacillin that nisin could not realize, both for bovine mastitis and possibly for human disease. "Nisin ...

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