Bovine mastitis is considered the main disease of dairy herds in the world, causing the greatest economic losses to the dairy sector. In Brazil, production losses caused by mastitis are estimated between 12 and 15%, accounting to more than three billion liters of milk per year. In addition, mastitis poses risks to public health, due to the possibility of contamination of milk with antibiotic residues or with microorganisms and their toxins. The high frequency of mastitis pathogens resistant to t

Status: Completed     Start date: Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2015

In previous projects, Embrapa Dairy cattle developed nanostructured intramammary formulations of mastitis, which show potential therapeutic use in the treatment of bovine keratoconjunctivitis. Infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis is a contagious disease that affects the eyes of cattle of all age groups, mainly calves, caused by Moraxella bovis. The disease is rarely fatal, but production losses are high. The costs caused by this disease involve weight loss, falling milk production and

Status: Completed     Start date: Fri Mar 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2013