@conference {89250,
	title = {Mastitis pathogens isolated from dairy cattle that were managed on conventionally or organically maintained matched farmlets},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	volume = {73},
	year = {2013},
	month = {Jan},
	pages = {183-185},
	publisher = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	organization = {New Zealand Society of Animal Production},
	address = {Hamilton},
	abstract = {<p>Mastitis is a common disease of dairy cattle causing significant economic loss (Seegers et al. 2003), which has been estimated to cost the New Zealand dairy industry $180 million annually (Malcolm 2006). It has been shown that dairy cattle in the first lactation are particularly susceptible to infections from environmental pathogens, including Streptococcus uberis(Woolford \&amp; Lacy-Hulbert 1996) and that this was the most common environmental pathogen, involved in the development of clinical mastitis of dairy cattle in New Zealand (Pankey et al. 1982, 1996; McDougall,1999). Studies completed in the Waikato region of New Zealand described the pathogens isolated from dairy cattle with clinical mastitis and reported that 27 to 75\% of cases were infected with Streptococcus uberis, whereas 9 to 10\% were Coagulase-negative-staphylococci(CNS), 3 to 5\% were Staphylococcus aureus, 2 to 5\% were coliforms and finally 1.5 to 4 \% were\&nbsp; Strep.</p>
},
	issn = {1176-5283},
	author = {Ullah Z and Margerison JK and Simcock DC and Thatcher A and Lopez-Villalobos N}
}
