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Cultivating change: A study of Western Canadian dairy farmers' perspectives on mastitis-related antimicrobial stewardship and strategies for milk culturing adoption

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Ida et al. found that “To improve on-farm AMS, a selective treatment approach to clinical mastitis (CM) is promoted, guided by pathogen identification through diagnostic techniques, such as milk culturing. […] Based on the interview results, 10 interventions were suggested, including: encouragement of milk culturing through veterinarians and farm magazines, training to improve aseptic sampling, education to improve interpretation of test results and increase problem awareness, offering of comprehensive udder health packages that include milk sampling to enable farmers to send in samples, increasing familiarity of culturing through on-farm demonstrations and among peer groups, and, lastly, incentivizing farmers to adopt milk culturing through benchmarking. Implementing these interventions could lead to an increased uptake of selective CM treatment protocols, thereby contributing to AMS on dairy farms.”
antimicrobial stewardship
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clinical mastitis
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behavioral framework
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motivator
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interventions
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antimicrobial resistance