mastitis

Mastitis is an intramamary infection. If mastitis isn't treated it could be fatal to your cattle. More common in lactating cattle mastitis can come in two forms, clinical and subclinical, and can affect both dry cattle and cattle in lactation. Subclinical is a diagnostic detected form of mastitis that can only be detected through laboratory settings such as microscopic evaluation, culturing, somatic cell counts, or CMT evaluation. Contrary to subclinical mastitis clinical mastitis can be detected through both laboratory diagnostics and in the field evaluation including observation of swelling, heat, hardness, masses, pus, blood, and sepsis as well as fever.