Preventive measures in mastitis control

Abstract

Mastitis is disease which provokes great economic losses in milk production There are influences of many factors on its appearance. Mastitis control programs are consisted of numerous preventive measures, which are adduced and shortly descripted in this review paper. Their implementation is proceeding by identification of herd health status, which should be repeated for program control. Some of the preventive measures are milking hygiene appropriate accomodation of animals, culling of chronical mastitis cases, dry cow therapy, selection on mastitis resistance, adequate nutrition and immunoprophylacy. Practically, complete mastitis control program in our country no exists. Failures in conveing of hygienic measures, nonconveing of certain measures or lack of control and record of data are the consequences. Therefore, the effect of preventive measures is not always satisfactory.

Mastitis je oboljenje koje stvara velike ekonomske gubitke u proizvodnji mleka. Na njegovu pojavu utiču brojni faktori. U programu kontrole mastitisa postoji veći broj preventivnih mera, koje su u ovom preglednom radu navedene i ukratko obrazložene. Njihovom sprovođenju prethodi utvrđivanje zdravstvenog stanja stada, što treba da se ponavlja i u cilju kontrole programa. U preventivne mere se ubrajaju higijena tokom muže, odgovarajući smeštaj za životinje, isključivanje hroničnih slučajeva, terapija u zasušenju, selekcija na otpornost, adekvatna ishrana i imunoprofilaksa. U našoj zemlji, praktično ne postoji kompletan program kontrole mastitisa. Kao rezultat toga nastaju posledice u vidu propusta u sprovođenju higijenskih mera, nesprovođenja određenih mera ili nedostatka kontrole i evidencije pojedinih postupaka. Samim tim, efekat preventivnih mera nije uvek zadovoljavajući.