An update on environmental mastitis: Challenging perceptions

IC Klaas, RN Zadoks - Transboundary and emerging diseases, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental mastitis is the most common and costly form of mastitis in modern dairy herds
where contagious transmission of intramammary pathogens is controlled through …

[HTML][HTML] Symposium review: Intramammary infections—Major pathogens and strain-associated complexity

OM Keane - Journal of dairy science, 2019 - Elsevier
Intramammary infection (IMI) is one of the most costly diseases to the dairy industry. It is
primarily due to bacterial infection and the major intramammary pathogens include …

Molecular epidemiology of Streptococcus uberis clinical mastitis in dairy herds: strain heterogeneity and transmission

PL Davies, JA Leigh, AJ Bradley… - Journal of clinical …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Multilocus sequence typing was successfully completed on 494 isolates of Streptococcus
uberis from clinical mastitis cases in a study of 52 commercial dairy herds over a 12-month …

Sequence characterisation and novel insights into bovine mastitis-associated Streptococcus uberis in dairy herds

B Vezina, H Al-Harbi, HR Ramay, M Soust… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Streptococcus uberis is one of the most frequent mastitis-causing pathogens isolated from
dairy cows. Further understanding of S. uberis genetics may help elucidate the disease …

Whole-Genome Sequence Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes in Streptococcus uberis and Streptococcus dysgalactiae Isolates from Canadian Dairy Herds

JR Vélez, M Cameron… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The objectives of this study are to determine the occurrence of antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) genes using whole-genome sequence (WGS) of Streptococcus uberis (S. uberis) and …

Genotyping and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Profiling of Streptococcus uberis Isolated from a Clinical Bovine Mastitis Outbreak in a Dairy Farm

V Monistero, A Barberio, P Cremonesi, B Castiglioni… - Antibiotics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Streptococcus uberis, an environmental pathogen responsible also for contagious
transmission, has been increasingly implicated in clinical mastitis (CM) cases in Europe. We …

Ubericin K, a new pore-forming bacteriocin targeting mannose-PTS

TF Oftedal, KV Ovchinnikov, KA Hestad… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Bovine mastitis infection in dairy cattle is a significant economic burden for the dairy industry
globally. To reduce the use of antibiotics in treatment of clinical mastitis, new alternative …

Progress towards the elusive mastitis vaccines

P Rainard, FB Gilbert, RP Martins, P Germon… - Vaccines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Mastitis is a major problem in dairy farming. Vaccine prevention of mammary bacterial
infections is of particular interest in helping to deal with this issue, all the more so as …

Discrimination of contagious and environmental strains of Streptococcus uberis in dairy herds by means of mass spectrometry and machine-learning

N Esener, MJ Green, RD Emes, B Jowett, PL Davies… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Streptococcus uberis is one of the most common pathogens of clinical mastitis in the dairy
industry. Knowledge of pathogen transmission route is essential for the selection of the most …

Streptococcus uberis strains isolated from the bovine mammary gland evade immune recognition by mammary epithelial cells, but not of macrophages

J Günther, A Czabanska, I Bauer, JA Leigh, O Holst… - Veterinary …, 2016 - Springer
Streptococcus uberis is frequently isolated from the mammary gland of dairy cattle. Infection
with some strains can induce mild subclinical inflammation whilst others induce severe …