Mastitis risk effect on the economic consequences of paratuberculosis control in dairy cattle: A stochastic modeling study.

ABSTRACT: The benefits and efficacy of control programs for herds infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP) have been investigated under various contexts. However, most previous research investigated paratuberculosis control programs in isolation, without modeling the potential association with other dairy diseases. This paper evaluated the benefits of MAP control programs when the herd is also affected by mastitis, a common disease causing the largest losses in dairy production. The effect of typically suggested MAP controls were estimated under the assumption that MAP infection increased the rate of clinical mastitis. We evaluated one hundred twenty three control strategies comprising various combinations of testing, culling, and hygiene, and found that the association of par

SUBMITTER: Verteramo Chiu LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6762148 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature