Monitoring udder health and milk quality using somatic cell counts

Y Schukken, D Wilson, F Welcome… - Veterinary …, 2003 - hal.science
In this article the use of somatic cell counts for monitoring udder health and milk quality is
discussed. Somatic cell count dynamics at quarter, cow, herd and population level are …

Importance of bovine mastitis in Africa

TE Motaung, KR Petrovski, IM Petzer… - Animal Health …, 2017 - cambridge.org
Bovine mastitis is an important animal production disease that affects the dairy industry
globally. Studies have estimated the prevalence of this disease in approximately 30% of …

[HTML][HTML] Differential somatic cell count—A novel method for routine mastitis screening in the frame of Dairy Herd Improvement testing programs

M Damm, C Holm, M Blaabjerg, MN Bro… - Journal of dairy science, 2017 - Elsevier
Somatic cell count (SCC) is used as key indicator in mastitis screening programs typically
applied in the frame of Dairy Herd Improvement (DHI) testing programs. However, mastitis is …

[HTML][HTML] Differential somatic cell count: Value for udder health management

T Halasa, C Kirkeby - Frontiers in veterinary science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Intramammary infection (IMI) can cause mastitis, which is one of the costliest and most
prevalent diseases in dairy cattle herds. Somatic cell count (SCC) is a well-established …

[HTML][HTML] Flow cytometric differential cell counts in milk for the evaluation of inflammatory reactions in clinically healthy and subclinically infected bovine mammary …

D Schwarz, US Diesterbeck, S König… - Journal of Dairy …, 2011 - Elsevier
Somatic cell counts (SCC) are generally used as an indicator of udder health. In Germany, a
cutoff value of 100,000 cells/mL is currently used to differentiate between healthy and …

[HTML][HTML] Differential leukocyte count method for bovine low somatic cell count milk

H Dosogne, F Vangroenweghe, J Mehrzad… - Journal of Dairy …, 2003 - Elsevier
Whereas many differential leukocyte count methods for high somatic cell count (SCC) milk
from mastitic cows are available, only a few have been developed for low SCC milk. We …

Detection of mastitis in the bovine mammary gland by flow cytometry at early stages

C Koess, J Hamann - Journal of Dairy Research, 2008 - cambridge.org
Subclinical mastitis is a costly disease and its diagnosis is difficult. Besides the somatic cell
count (SCC) and bacteriology, the differential inflammatory cell count (DICC) is a meaningful …

[HTML][HTML] YOLOv5-FPN: a robust framework for multi-sized cell counting in fluorescence images

B Aldughayfiq, F Ashfaq, NZ Jhanjhi, M Humayun - Diagnostics, 2023 - mdpi.com
Cell counting in fluorescence microscopy is an essential task in biomedical research for
analyzing cellular dynamics and studying disease progression. Traditional methods for cell …

[HTML][HTML] Immune response in nonspecific mastitis: What can it tell us?

FN Souza, MG Blagitz, CF Batista, PV Takano… - Journal of dairy …, 2020 - Elsevier
We analyzed a large number of immune response parameters from quarter milk samples
with distinct bacteriological and quarter somatic cell count (qSCC) statuses. Furthermore, we …

[HTML][HTML] Microscopic differential cell counting to identify inflammatory reactions in dairy cow quarter milk samples

R Pilla, D Schwarz, S König, R Piccinini - Journal of Dairy Science, 2012 - Elsevier
The diagnosis of intramammary infections is mostly based on somatic cell count (SCC) and
bacteriological analysis. As an alternative, differential cell counting (DCC) could be a useful …