Abstracts
Revised 12th April
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- Opening session (Wednesday 15th May 09:00-10:30 hrs)
- 1. Robot milking, the environment and mastitis automatic milking systems (Wednesday 15th May 11:00-12:30 hrs)
- 2. Diagnostics - part 1 (Wednesday 15th May 11:00-12:30 hrs)
- 2. Diagnostics - part 2 (Thursday 16th May 09:00-10:30 hrs)
- 3. Decision support tools, modeling and economics (Wednesday 15th May 13:30-15:00 hrs)
- 4. Social sciences and antimicrobial usage (Wednesday 15th May 13:30-15:00 hrs)
- 5. Udder hygiene (Wednesday 15th May 15:30-17:00 hrs)
- 6. Mastitis management - part 1 (Wednesday 15th May 15:30-17:00 hrs)
- 6. Mastitis management - part 2 (Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs)
- 7. Milk quality (Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs)
- 8. Milking managements and 13. Milking machines (Thursday 16th May 09:00-10:30 hrs)
- 9. Advice and management and 11. The dry period (Thursday 16th May 11:00-12:30 hrs)
- 10. Microbiota and molecular epidemiology (Thursday 16th May 11:00-12:30 hrs)
- 12. Small ruminants (Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs)
- Closing sessions (Thursday 16th May 15:30-17:00 hrs)
Opening session
Wednesday 15th May 09:00-10:30 hrs
| 1 | Jaap Boes | SEGES, Denmark | Welcome on behalf of the Organizing Committee |
| 2 | Caroline Emond | IDF, Belgium | Welcome on behalf of IDF |
| 3 | Steen Nørgaard Madsen | Danish Dairy Board, Denmark | Shaping the dairy industry for the future |
| 4 | Henk Hogeveen | Wageningen UR, Netherlands | Mastitis management in an economic perspective |
1. Robot milking, the environment and mastitis automatic milking systems
Wednesday 15th May 11:00-13:30 hrs
1. Oral presentations
| 1 | Snorri Sigurdsson | Arla Foods Amba, China | Development of AMS in the Nordic countries 1998-2018 |
| 2 | Gunnar Dalen | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway | On-line cell counts for detecting mastitis |
| 3 | Gerrit Koop | Utrecht University, Netherlands | Evaluation of online somatic cell count estimation in automatic milking systems |
| 4 | Henk Hogeveen | Wageningen UR, Netherlands | Encouraging adequate farmer interventions through the use of sensors for mastitis management |
| 5 | Eial Izak | Mastitis Prevention Services, Argentina | Implementation of decision tree for treatment protocols in automatic milking systems |
1. Posters
| 0 | Dorota Anglart | Delaval/Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences | Using sensor data to describe cell count variation in an automatic milking rotary |
| 1 | Jean-Louis Poulet | Idele (French Livestock Institute), France | AMS Check-List: a first-line tool to investigate potential links between AMS and milk quality |
| 2 | Martin Bjerring | Aarhus University, Denmark | Sensor data affected by carry over in sampled milk may not correctly provide health status of cows |
2. Diagnostics - part 1
Wednesday 15th May 11:00-12:30 hrs
2.1 Oral presentations
| 1 | Volker Krömker | University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany | On-farm diagnostics and integration in udder health consulting |
| 2 | Lærke Astrup | Danish Technical University, Denmark | On-farm culture - diagnostic validation and apparent pathogen prevalences in Denmark |
| 3 | Karin Knappstein | Max Rubner-Institute, Department of Safety and Quality of Milk and Fish Products, Germany | Evaluation of three cultural diagnostic tests for the fast identification of mastitis pathogens |
| 4 | Anne Schmenger | Hochschule Hannover, University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Germany | Sociological aspects of introducing a mastitis rapid test - compliance, concerns and expectations |
| 5 | Ann Nyman | Växa Sverige, Sweden | Differential somatic cell count - a tool to improve diagnosis of cows with intramammary infections |
2. Diagnostics - part 2
Thursday 16th May 09:00-10:30 hrs
2.2 Oral presentations
| 1 | Alfonso Zecconi | Università di Milano Dept.Veterinary Medicine, Italy | 2. Assessment of Subclinical Mastitis Diagnostic Accuracy by Differential Cell Count |
| 2 | Silke Hechinger | Landesbetrieb Hessisches Landeslabor, Germany | 2. PCR detection of staphylococcus aureus and streptococcus agalactiae in pool milk samples |
| 3 | Aqeela Ashraf | Lahore Garrison University, Pakistan | Development of molecular diagnostic assays for the rapid detection of mastitis causing pathogens. |
| 4 | Anton Pernthaner | Koru Diagnostics Ltd, New Zealand | Development of a novel milk ELISA test for the detection of S. aureus infections |
| 5 | Giorgi Shtenberg | ARO- Volcani Center, Israel | Milk Haptoglobin Detection Based on Enhanced Chemiluminescence of Gold Nanoparticles |
| 6 | Carsten Kirkeby | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | 2. Sensitivity and Specificity of PCR and Bacterial Culture of S. aureus based on Bayesian LCA |
2. Posters
| 3 | Hanna Markiewicz | Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz, Poland | Pathogens associated with chronic mastitis in dairy cows and their susceptibility pattern to antimic |
| 4 | Paolo Bulgarelli | Parmalat S.p.A., Italy | European project MOLOKO: a 21th century on-farm multiplex plasmonic sensor for udder health |
| 5 | Karl Pedersen | National Veterinary Institute, Sweden | MALDI-TOF is a rapid and reliable tool for identification of bacteria from bovine mastitis |
| 6 | Emily O'Reilly | University of Glasgow, United Kingdom | Haptoglobin and ?-lactalbumin, biomarkers for selective dry cow therapy? |
| 7 | Lærke Astrup | Danish Technical University, Denmark | Quality-assessment of E. coli diagnostics in Danish veterinary practice. |
| 8 | Lærke Boye Astrup | Technical University of Denmark, Denmark | Patterns of antibiotic resistance in major pathogens from clinical mastitis in Denmark 2018 |
| 9 | Anne Quijada | Thermo Fisher Scientific, France | Fast and convenient nucleic acid extraction method for mastitis diagnostic |
| 10 | Johan Waldner | District Veterinary Organization, Jönköping, Sweden | Bacterial findings at clinical mastitis in Swedish dairy cows |
| 11 | Tomas Ussing | FluimediX, Denmark | On-farm testing on a Stick |
| 12 | Renata Leite | School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Brazil | Identification of Streptococcus uberis Using Phenotypic Methods and Mass Spectrometry |
| 13 | Nadjia Benhamed | University of sciences and technology of Oran, Algeria | Phylogenique identification study of staphylococcus aureus involved in mastitis cases in Oran, Algér |
| 14 | Carsten Kirkeby | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Investigation of the added value of differential somatic cell count (DSCC) for detection of mastitis |
| 15 | Daniel Schwarz | FOSS, Denmark | Differential Somatic Cell Count as a new & inexpensive supplementary Tool for Mastitis Screening |
| 16 | Anne Quijada | Thermo Fisher Scientific, France | Mastitis diagnosis utilizing a turnkey solution from Thermo Fisher Scientific's animal health |
3. Decision support tools, modeling and economics
Wednesday 15th May 13:30-15:00 hrs
3. Oral presentations
| 1 | Alexander Bartel | Freie Universität Berlin - Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Germany | SCC predictions using generalized additive models: can they support mastitis management decisions? |
| 2 | Bart van Den Borne | Wageningen University, Business Economics, Netherlands | Cow factors predicting the detection of new Staphylococcus aureus intramammary infections |
| 3 | Ingrid H. Holmøy | Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway | Bio-economic modelling of sequence type-specific Streptococcus agalactiae intramammary infections. |
| 4 | Maya Gussmann | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Modelling intervention strategies for clinical and subclinical intramammary infections |
| 5 | Juan Cainzos | Elanco, Spain | Can differential somatic cell count at dryoff help to predict postpartum mastitis prevalence? |
| 6 | Henk Hogeveen | Wageningen UR, Netherlands | The economic impact of abrupt drying off with a dry-off facilitator compared with gradual cessation |
3. Posters
| 17 | Hen Honig | Agricultural Research Organization, Israel | Monitoring pain caused by E. coli-induced mastitis and its alleviation with NSAID by algometry |
| 18 | Alexander Bartel | Free University Berlin - Institute for Veterinary Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Germany | Estimating uncertainty in milk yield reduction associated with elevated somatic cell counts |
| 19 | Yael Salzer | Agriculture Research Organization, Israel | On-farm physiological parameters for the evaluation of dairy cow pain |
| 20 | Anne Quijada | Thermo Fisher Scientific, France | A Novel Cloud-Based Software for Easy Interpretation of Animal |
4. Social sciences and antimicrobial usage
Wednesday 15th May 13:30-15:00 hrs
4. Oral presentations
| 1 | Kristen Reyher | University of Bristol, UK | Antibiotic Anonymous - Playing Our Part in Reducing Antibiotic Usage |
| 2 | Christian Scherpenzeel | GD Animal Health, Netherlands | Monitoring udder health using census data: evaluating effects of a changed antimicrobial policy |
| 3 | Valerie-Beau Pucken | Vetsuisse Faculty, University of Bern, Switzerland | The effect of peer group education on veterinary prescription practices |
| 4 | Bart van Den Borne | Wageningen University, Business Economics, Netherlands | Antimicrobial stewardship profiles among Swiss dairy farmers - a latent class analysis |
| 5 | Jorge Manuel Ferreira | World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE), France | How OIE standards support the dairy sector to apply responsible and prudent use of antimicrobials? |
4. Posters
| 21 | Finola Mc Coy | Animal Health Ireland, Ireland | Using national sales data to describe trends in intramammary antimicrobial use on Irish dairy farm |
| 22 | Monique Driesse | Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health Netherlands bv, Netherlands | Field trial to motivate and support Dutch farmers to treat grade 1 and 2 mastitis more prudent |
| 23 | Paolo Moroni | University of Milan, Italy | S. aureus antibiotic-resistance: phenotypic and genotypic analysis of bovine mastitis isolates |
| 24 | Joanne Karzis | Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa | Antibiotic resistance and diagnosis of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius from milk of dairy cows. |
| 25 | Clair Firth | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria | Which factors influence farmers' choices with respect to antimicrobial dry cow therapy? |
| 26 | Clair Firth | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria | What are Austrian cattle veterinarians' priorities when choosing antimicrobials to use on farm? |
| 27 | Åsa Lundberg | Växa Sverige, Sweden | Farmer knowledge and attitudes to mastitis in dairy cows |
5. Udder hygiene
Wednesday 15th May 15:30-17:00 hrs
5. Oral presentations
| 1 | Derek Nolan | University of Kentucky, United States | Does statistical analysis method influence conclusions of teat condition score trials? |
| 2 | Sarah Fitzpatrick | Teagasc, Ireland | Impact of teat disinfectants on the bacterial load on cows teats |
| 3 | Martin Tho Seeth | Chamber of Agriculture Lower Saxony/Udder Health Service, Germany | Risk of intramammary infection during early lactation in German dairy heifers |
| 4 | Lisa Ekman | Statens Veterinärmedicinska Anstalt, Sweden | A longitudinal study of udder cleft dermatitis in Swedish dairy cows |
5. Poster
| 28 | Sarah Fitzpatrick | Teagasc Animal and Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Ireland | Using Disc Diffusion to Screen Teat Disinfectant Products |
6. Mastitis management - part 1
Wednesday 15th May 15:30-17:00 hrs
6.1 Oral presentations
| 1 | Päivi Rajala-Schultz | University of Helsinki, Finland | Dry cow management, history, development and future perspectives |
| 2 | Rama Falk | Israel Dairy Board, Israel | Unusual Outbreak of Mastitis caused by Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) |
| 3 | Samir Kumar Rana | National Dairy Development Board, India | Aetiological profiling of bovine mastitis and an alternate approach for its management in India |
| 4 | Håkan Landin | Växa Sverige, Sweden | Herd prevalence of Mycoplasma bovis and Streptococcus agalactiae in Swedish dairy herds |
| 5 | Dimitri Valckenier | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine - Ghent University, Belgium | Species-specific effect of non-aureus staphylococci on quarter milk yield and somatic cell count |
6. Mastitis management - part 2
Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs
6.2 Oral presentations
| 1 | Olav Østerås | TINE SA, Norway | The udder health in the Nordic countries |
| 2 | Shuvo Singha | Chittagong Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Bangladesh | Clinical mastitis; incidence, causative pathogens and risk factors in dairy cows in Bangladesh |
| 3 | Jean Baptiste Ndahetuye | Swedish University of Agriculture Sciences, Sweden | Udder pathogens and risk factors in dairy cows in Rwanda |
| 4 | Maya Gussmann | University of Copenhagen, Denmark | Determinants for treatment and culling in relation to mastitis in Danish dairy cattle herds |
| 5 | Karin Persson Waller | National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Sweden | Prevention of mastitis in early lactation first parity cows |
| 6 | Jane Lacy-Hulbert | DairyNZ, New Zealand | Supporting a move towards more selective use of dry cow antibiotics |
6. Posters
| 29 | Yoshio Kiku | National Institute of Animal Health, NARO, Japan | Treatment of Staphylococcus aureus mastitis with recombinant bovine GM-CSF |
| 30 | Mick Clews | Vetora, New Zealand | Procaine penicillin for mastitis. Have we forgotten how good it is and is it getting even better? |
| 31 | David Sabaté | HIPRA Scientific, S.L.U., Spain | Immune response of dairy cows following vaccination with UBAC® in a clinical trial |
| 32 | Steven Sietsma | University Farm Animal Practice, Netherlands | Efficacy of a salicylic-acid bedding conditioner in dry cow housing on new intra mammary infections |
| 33 | Josef Prasek | Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences Brno, Czech Republic | On-farm culture system as a tool to reduce antimicrobials usage -10 years´ experience in Czechia. |
| 34 | Luiz Francisco Zafalon | Embrapa Southeast Livestock, Brazil | Maintenance of Staphylococcus spp producing biofilms in a herd treated by homeopathy |
| 35 | Inge-Marie Petzer | Faculty of Veterinary Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa | Diagnosis, SCC, biofilm and antibiotic resistance in Non aureus staphylococcus species in SA. |
| 36 | Simonetta Amatiste | Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Lazio e Toscana M. Aleandri, Italy | Evaluation of an automate milk leukocyte differential test for selective dry-cow therapy on farm |
| 37 | Ann Nyman | Växa Sverige, Denmark | Can an automatic farm water cleaning system improve udder health? |
| 38 | Ulf Emanuelson | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden | An evolutionary operation framework as a tool in herd-specific mastitis control |
| 39 | Ulf Emanuelson | Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden | Management of subclinical mastitis in organic and conventional Swedish dairy herds |
| 40 | Karin Persson Waller | National Veterinary Institute (SVA), Sweden | Early lactation udder health problems in first parity dairy cows |
| 41 | Elaine Meade | Institute of Technology, Sligo, Ireland, Ireland | Antimicrobial resistant species: causative agents of chronic mastitis and a food safety issue. |
| 42 | Gabriel Leitner | Armenta, Israel | Acoustic Pulse Therapy (APT) for treatment and prevention of mastitis |
7. Milk quality
Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs
7. Oral presentations
| 1 | Marcos Veiga dos Santos | University of São Paulo, Brazil | Status and challenges in milk production and quality in southern America |
| 2 | Anne Vuholm Sunds | Aarhus University, Denmark | Milk glycosidase activities and metabolite formation in relation to mastitis |
| 3 | Gabriel Leitner | Kimron Veterinary Institute, Israel | Milk quality based on mammary glands as production units vs. the udder in dairy cows with mastitis |
| 4 | Oriol Franquesa | Q-LLET SLP | Milk Quality- Leptospirosis outbreak impact on udder health |
7. Posters
| 43 | Oriol Franquesa | Q-LLET SLP, Spain | Milk Quality- Leptospirosis outbreak impact on udder health |
| 44 | Renata Leite | School of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences/ University of São Paulo, Brazil | Host cell invasive properties of mastitis-causing Staphylococcus aureus strains from Brazil |
8. Milking managements and 13. Milking machines
Thursday 16th May 09:00-10:30 hrs
8. Oral presentations
| 1 | John Upton | Teagasc, Ireland | Scope for improving milking efficiency |
| 2 | Pablo Silva Boloña | Teagasc/University of Wisconsin-Madison, Ireland | Effect of simulated quarter and udder removal settings on residual milk and milking time |
| 3 | Anneke Gouw | Lely International, Netherlands | Reducing bimodality by prolonged brush time in AMS |
| 4 | Alice Hubert | French Livestock Institute, France | PiloTraite: a new pilot machine to study links between milk quality and milking machine |
| 5 | Ralph Ginsberg | Agricultural Technologies and Management, Israel | What we have learned about milking management in the past two decades |
8. Posters
| 45 | Esa Manninen | Valio Ltd., Finland | Measuring of liner dimensions - Inner diameters of tensioned liners |
| 46 | Esa Manninen | Valio Ltd., Finland | Measuring of liner dimensions - Mouth piece depth and effective length of liners |
9. Advice and management and 11. The dry period
Thursday 16th May 11:00-12:30 hrs
9. Oral presentations
| 1 | Snorri Sigurdsson | Arla Food Amba / China-Denmark Milk Technology Cooperation Centre, China | On farm trainings: a good solution for all dairy operations |
| 2 | Ylva Persson | National veterinary Institute, Sweden | Succesful development of an udder health control program in Bangladesh. |
| 3 | Mark Humphris | The Milk Road / Dairy Australia, Australia | Countdown MQ : building mastitis investigatory capability in Australia |
| 4 | Finola Mc Coy | Animal Health Ireland, Ireland | CellCheck Milking for Quality awards-recognising excellence in udder health on Irish farms |
| 5 | Shmuel Friedman | Israel Dairy Board (IDB), Israel | Selective dry cow treatment based on farm evidence |
| 6 | Scott McDougall | Cognosco, New Zealand | Cow and quarter selection for dry cow therapy using the Rapid Mastitis Test |
9. Posters
| 47 | Eva Gass | German Association for Performance and Quality Testing (DLQ), Germany | ZellDiX - A new approach to assess udder health by using DHI results and cell differentiation |
| 48 | Anri Aino Elisa Timonen | Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia | Dynamics of within-herd prevalence of Mycoplasma bovis IMI in large dairy herds |
| 49 | Riitta Niemi | University of Helsinki, Finland | Associations between herd level somatic cell count, milk yield and use of dry cow therapy |
10. Microbiota and molecular epidemiology
Thursday 16th May 11:00-12:30 hrs
10. Oral presentations
| 1 | Josef Dahlberg | SLU / HUV, Sweden | The effects of sampling technique and milk fraction on the bovine milk microbiota. |
| 2 | Arne Schnitt | German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Germany | Methicillin resistant staphylococci in German dairy herds - Involved species and genes |
| 3 | Christopher Luby | University of Saskatchewan, Canada | The effects and sources of non-aureus staphylococci on dairy herds in Saskatchewan, Canada |
| 4 | Siyu Xu | China Argricultural University, China | Spa typing and resistance characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bovine mastitis |
| 5 | M. Filippa Addis | University of Milan, Department of Veterinary Medicine, Italy | Mycoplasma prevalence in large US dairy cattle farms |
10. Posters
| 50 | Regina Wald | University Clinic for Ruminants and Institute for Milk Hygiene, Milk Technology and Food Science, University of Veterinary Medicine, Austria | Epidemiological characterization of S. uberis mastitis in small-scale herds and a large farm |
| 51 | Felix Shih-Hsiang Hsiao | Tunghai University, Taiwan | Antigen analysis of cow mastitis milk immunoglobulin G using Escherichia coli proteome microarrays |
| 52 | Alicia Romano' | Agroscope, Switzerland | The intramammary bacteriome of herds positive and negative for Staph.aureus genotype B. |
| 53 | Yang Liu | China Agricultural University, China | Genotyping of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Isolated from Bovine Mastitis |
| 54 | Manfred Peisker | ADM Specialty Ingredients Europe BV, Netherlands | Bacterial endotoxin binding capacity of Pichia guilliermondii |
| 55 | Anne Bückle | Milchprüfring Baden-Württemberg, Germany | Prevalence of 15 bovine mastitis pathogens in bulk tank milk in Germany was monitored for 3 years |
12. Small ruminants
Thursday 16th May 13:30-15:00 hrs
12. Oral presentations
| 1 | Clare Phythian | NMBU, Norway | Is it the shed or the sheep? Risks for clinical mastitis in Norwegian sheep |
| 2 | Mick Clews | Vetora, New Zealand | Intramammary penicillin has a similar time to Maximum Residue Limit in bovine and caprine udders |
| 3 | Clare Phythian | NMBU, Norway | New insights into mammary gland postnatal development and mastitis in sheep |
12. Poster
| 56 | Simone Dore | National Reference Centre for Sheep and Goat Mastitis (CReNMOC) - Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Italy | Survey on contagious agalactia of small ruminants in Italy, 2014-2017 |
Closing sessions
Thursday 16th May 15:30-17:00 hrs
Oral presentations
| 1 | Paolo Moroni | Cornell University, USA | Can standard bacteriology, on-farm culture, MALDI-TOF, PCR and arrays really help and support our veterinarians and farmers to take treatment decisions and try to optimize and reduce the use of antibiotics in dairy farms? |
| 2 | Olav Østerås | TINE SA/IDF, Norway | Closing session: Mastitis prevention and therapy for sustainable dairy production |
| 3 | Morten Dam Rasmussen | Aarhus University, Denmark | Closing remarks and see you next time |