Final Flashcards
___cant passs between glands but ____ can
Bacteria, antibiotics
Subclinical mastitis
Appearance is normal but milk contains high inflammatory cells
Often long term
Clinical mastitis
Visual abnormalities of milk
E. coli
Gram neg
Klebsiella
Gram neg
S aureus
Gram positive
S agalactiae
Gram positive, mostly eradicated
Mycoplasma
No cell Wall
Gram positive meaning
Has LTA, not as big as immune response
Gram negative meaning
Has LPS= endotoxin
Staph Aeros can evade immune diffense
Str. Agalactie
Only lives in udders, more cow-cow contagious
Primary environmental
E. coli and klebsiella
Mycoplasma loves the ___ &____
Udder and resp tract
Resident macrophages recruite _____ via cytokines
Neutrophils
Clinical mastitis appearnce
Water chunky wrong color
Options for detecting bacteria in milk?
Culture, dna based like PCR, microbiome analysis, or dna fignerprint
What would mean contamination on plates?
3 or more colonies
Would you treat gram pos
Yes w narrow spectrum
would you treat a chronic staph Aeros
No dont waste anymore antibiotics
Would you treat gram neg?
No, has high spontaneous cure rate
Can you id staph aureus just of plates?
No neeed catalase positive and hemolytic testss
Phases of parturition
1: not visible external, uterin contractions
2: rupture of membrane, pushing
3: placenta expulsion