Treatment of Mastitis in Dairy Cattle

Dear Colleagues，

Bovine mastitis is one of the most costly diseases affecting the dairy industry and is the most common condition affecting dairy cows where antibiotics are used. But in particular, mastitis is a painful disease that affects animal welfare. Over recent decades, the aims of mastitis treatment have been focused on maximizing cure rates, which has led to relatively simple treatment criteria resulting in predominantly blanket antimicrobial treatment. Not only uncritical substances are used. Only through careful and systematic scientific work can the therapy of mastitis be more targeted, so that comparable or even better cure rates can be achieved with fewer antibiotic doses. Our times require us to better balance cure rates, antibiotic selection and consumption, resistance avoidance and animal welfare.  This special issue seeks manuscripts that will help in the development of an evidence-based  targeted antibiotic therapy for mastitis in cattle. This includes not only manuscripts on clinical and pharmacological issues, but also those on decision-making tools, antimicrobial resistance, knowledge transfer in practice, economics of evidence-based therapies and animal welfare aspects.

Prof. Dr. Volker Krömker
Guest Editor

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