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Veterinary Medicine


Antimicrobial Resistance in Veterinary Medicine 204
Species Specific - Dairy Cattle

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  • Discuss details that the term “medicated milk replacer” means antibiotics have been added to the dairy milk replacer.
  • List the antibiotics that are most commonly added to medicated milk replacer.
  • Identify the disadvantages associated with using medicated milk replacer.
  • Comprehend that the proper management and preventive medicine, including sanitation and a good colostrum program, are critical to long-term calf health and can often replace the need for medicated milk replacer.
  • Describe a good colostrum management program for dairy calves.
  • Describe the management practices that can prevent scours in calves, such as high quality colostrum management, sanitation and proper isolation procedures.
  • Explain the proper role of antimicrobial agents in treating calves with scours.
  • Compile the proper indications for the use of antimicrobials for contagious mastitis in dairy cattle.
  • Follow proper treatment protocols when using an antibiotic to treat individual cows for contagious udder pathogens.
  • Describe how somatic cell counts and culture results are used to formulate a herd antibiotic treatment plan for contagious udder pathogens.
  • Describe how antimicrobial treatment of contagious udder pathogens can be greatly reduced in herds by using effective mastitis prevention and control programs.
  • Distinguish the futility of using antibiotics to treat cases of contagious mastitis if the cow is to be returned to a herd where she will quickly become re-infected.

Paul Bartlett, DVM

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