With shifting pathogen types, mastitis has evolved, but still remains a common and economically challenging disease. The author reviews literature on prevention and treatment.

Andy Biggs and Kath Aplin join Vet Times to talk about mastitis and how treatment for this painful inflammation of the udder has changed over the years.

Mastitis continues to be a major welfare and economic problem for farms. In this article, Charlie Neale provides an update for vets on aetiology, prevention and treatment, to aid them in devising on-farm strategies and providing advice.

Emma Fishbourne outlines the clinical advantages to selective dry cow therapy, and the barriers that vets and farmers must overcome to promote its application.

Peter Plate and Rachel Hayton answer questions surrounding this topic on where the science is and whether it is a good idea for clients.

Phil Elkins looks at the need for farm vets to be proactive with farmers on controlling mastitis and how they should go about it.

Andy Biggs will be stranger to few in the farm veterinary sector, and has been busy working on a mastitis project. He stepped into the Vet Times Examination Room to tell us all about it…

Mastitis expert Peter Edmondson outlines his approach to developing a farm-specific mastitis control plan in this talk from Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health’s Future Vet CPD event.

Thomas Manske, technical services manager for Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health in the Nordic region, shared his experience of mastitis control and the use of narrow-spectrum treatment in a talk at the company’s Future Vet CPD event.

New advice around engaging with clients to improve the outcome in cases of clinical mastitis.

Developed to support the launch of Ubroseal® Blue, Boehringer Ingelheim’s new drying off consultation tool provides an at-a-glance checklist of questions to ask and points to run through with clients.

The University of Ghent’s Dr Sofie Piepers talks about measuring and improving mastitis treatment success rates in a recently broadcast webinar on the Boehringer Academy, with a special focus on engaging and working collaboratively with clients.

The power of collaboration to bring about lots of small improvements over time should not be under-estimated. Boehringer Ingelheim’s Kath Aplin explains more.

Consultant vet Owen Atkinson runs through some of the hurdles and pitfalls you may encounter when communicating with clients about mastitis.

The dry period is an opportunity to rid the udder of any infection and prepare it for the coming lactation. Using the appropriate dry cow therapy also protects the udder once lactation has started.

Keith Baxter discusses how vets and farmers can address the environmental mastitis challenge.

Phil Elkins offers practical advice for fellow vets to help implement best practice on client farms.

Mastitis control has become increasingly important because of the rising concern regarding antimicrobial use on farms. Rebecca Nelson looks at control and prevention, including a new initiative to tackle it.

Phil Elkins discusses this key area of disease prevention, as well as updates in treatments and preventive strategies.

An acute seasonal disease in outside-kept cows, summer mastitis may have different transmission routes, but it has the same clinical signs. Jenny Allan discusses this variation, including treatment and prevention strategies.