What is it about?
This study is about the relation of pain sensitivity (estimated with thermal threshold) and clinical and subclinical mastitis
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Why is it important?
Concern about dairy cows welfare is not a new issue, but there is a huge variation among farm producers and veterinarians about their perception of pain in domestic animals. Although severe clinical mastitis is usually considered painful and high scores of pain were acknowledged by farmers and veterinarians, our research gives the first tentative indication that subclinical mastitis alters thermal nociceptive thresholds.
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This page is a summary of: Impact of subclinical and clinical mastitis on sensitivity to pain of dairy cows, animal, July 2015, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1751731115001391.
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