Summer mastitis: vector transmission or not?
Summer mastitis is on acute, suppurative infection of cattle with considerable importance to European agriculture. The causative bacteria are thought to be transmitted by the fly Hydrotaea irritans (L.) but evidence for this remains circumstantial. In this article, Eric Hillerton presents a working hypothesis to explain the transmission mechanism.
AFRC Institute for Animal Disease Research, Compton, Berkshire, RG16 ONN, UK.
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