Bovine mastitis and antimicrobial resistance reduction

摘要

Aresearch project to tackle bovine mastitis and reduce the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics in dairy cattle - the widescale use of which can contribute to the development of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) - is being launched by the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) at Queen's University Belfast in partnership with AgriSearch and the Agri-Food & Biosciences Institute (AFBI).The new approach will involve the use of mass spectrometry - an analytical method using sophisticated laboratory equipment - to develop a rapid diagnosis of mastitis, directly from a suspected milk sample. This will initially use laboratory-based equipment but could potentially be translated to an on-site test to further increase test turnaround times.