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Cost effective - highly affordab91% of sub-clinical intramammary infectionsat calving are gram-positive.Prevalence ofIMI pathogens at calving 1Multi-site, multi-herd field study involving11 herds and 1,028 cows. National MastitisCouncil, 2007. 1Coagulase-negative Staphylococcus spp. (CNS) ......51%Bacillus spp. .........................................16%Streptococcus uberis ...................................8%Enterococcus spp. ......................................7%Aerococcus spp. .......................................5%Staph. aureus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2%Other .................................................2%E. coli .................................................5%Enterobacter spp. ......................................2%Klebsiella spp. .........................................1%Yeast .................................................1%Ampicillin (the active form of Hetacin-K) hasdemonstrated excellent activity againstenvironmental Streptococcus spp. 2, 3The majority of clinical cases of gram-positive mastitis, regardless of farm size,are caused by environmental streps. 4Small(