Mastitis, a disease that affects dairy herds worldwide and causes huge economic losses to the Brazilian dairy sector has the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria as one of the major etiologic agents. S. aureus is an infectious pathogen, which can be isolated from clinical infections, but is most often associated with chronic and subclinical mastitis, with an augmentation of the somatic cell count (SCC) in milk. This pathogen has several virulence factors, which are important in the bac

Status: Completed     Start date: Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2014

Minas Gerais accounts for 27.6% of the national milk production, standing out as the largest producing state in the country. Although statistics show a constant evolution in the milk production chain in Brazil, in recent years dairy farming has faced new challenges and, in this scenario, with low profit margins, it is necessary to increase the efficiency of milk production systems, which still have many constraints. Among these, infecto-contagious diseases stand out, with mastitis being the main

Status: Completed     Start date: Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2016