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Tackling the future challenges of Organic Animal Husbandry - vTI

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! Agriculture and Forestry Research, Special Issue No 362 (Braunschweig, 2012) ISSN 0376-0723<br />

Download: www.vti.bund.de/en/startseite/vti-publications/landbauforschung-special-issues.html<br />

Abstract<br />

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Complementary and alternative medicine as a first line <strong>the</strong>rapy<br />

in control <strong>of</strong> clinical mastitis<br />

PETER KLOCKE 1 , ARIANE MAESCHLI 1 , SILVIA IVEMEYER 1,2 ,<br />

MICHAEL WALKENHORST 1 , CHRISTOPHE NOTZ 1<br />

1 Research Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>Organic</strong> Agriculture; 5070 Frick, Switzerland,<br />

email: peter.klocke@fibl.org, www.fibl.org<br />

2 Department <strong>of</strong> Farm <strong>Animal</strong> Behaviour and <strong>Husbandry</strong>;<br />

Faculty <strong>of</strong> <strong>Organic</strong> Agricultural Sciences, University <strong>of</strong> Kassel,<br />

Steinstr. 19, 37213 Witzenhausen, Germany<br />

The researchers collected and analysed clinical mastitis infection data in an udder health improvement<br />

programme in 68 Swiss organic dairy farms. Data for 247 non-antibiotic (complementary and<br />

alternative medicine; CAM) and 173 antibiotic (AB) treatment cycles were analysed. <strong>Animal</strong>s were<br />

placed in <strong>the</strong> following categories: (AA) clinical cure and somatic cell count (SCC)

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