Canadian Bovine Mastitis Research Network

2011
Dohoo, I. R., Smith, J., Andersen, S. and S. Godden. 2011. Diagnosing intramammary infections: Evaluation of definitions based on a single milk sample. Journal of Dairy Science, Vol. 94 (1): 250-261.

Dufour, S., A. Fréchette, H.W. Barkema, A. Mussell, and D.T. Scholl. 2011. Invited review: effect of udder health management practices on herd somatic cell count. J. Dairy Sci. 94(2): 563-579.

Reyher, K.K., S. Dufour, H.W. Barkema, L. Des Côteaux, T.J. DeVries, I.R. Dohoo, G.P. Keefe, J.-P. Roy, and D.T. Scholl. The National Cohort of Dairy Farms- A data collection platform for mastitis research in Canada. J. Dairy Sci. 94:1616-1626.

2010
DeVries, T. J., S. Dufour, and D. T. Scholl. 2010. Relationship between feeding strategy, lying behaviour patterns, and incidence of intramammary infection in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 93:1987-1997.

Mulhbacher, J., E. Brouillette, M. Allard, L.-C. Fortier, F. Malouin, and D. Lafontaine. 2010. Novel riboswitch ligand analogs as selective inhibitors of guanine-related metabolic pathways. PLoS Pathogens 6(4):e1000865.

Simon Dufour, Herman W. Barkema, Luc DesCôteaux, Trevor J. DeVries, Ian R. Dohoo, Kristen Reyher, Jean-Philippe Roy, Daniel T. Scholl. 2010. Development and validation of a bilingual questionnaire for measuring udder health related management practices on dairy farms. Preventive Veterinary Medicine 95 (2010) 74-85.

2009
Atalla, H., C. Gyles, B. Wilkie, K. Leslie, and B.A. Mallard. 2009. Somatic cell scores and clinical signs following experimental intramammary infection of dairy cows with a Staphylococcus aureus small colony variant (S. aureus SCV) in comparison to other bovine strains. Vet. Microbiol. 137 (2009) 326-334.

Atalla H., C. Gyles, B. Mallard. 2009. Persistence of a Staphylococcus aureus small colony variant (SCV) within bovine mammary epithelial cells. Vet. Microbiol. – In press.

McCarron, J.L., G.P. Keefe, S.L. B. McKenna, I.R. Dohoo, and D.E. Poole. 2009. Laboratory evaluation of 3M Petrifilms and University of Minnesota Bi-plates as potential on-farm tests for clinical mastitis. J. Dairy Sci. 92: 2297.

McCarron JL, G.P. Keefe , S.L. McKenna, I.R. Dohoo and D.E. Poole. 2009. Evaluation of the University of Minnesota Tri-plate and 3M Petrifilm for the isolation of Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus species from clinically mastitic milk samples. J Dairy Sci. Oct;92(10):5326-33.

Mount, J. A., N. A. Karrow, J. L. Caswell, H. J. Boermans, and K. E. Leslie. 2009. Assessment of bovine mammary chemokine gene expression in response to lipopolysaccharide, lipotechoic acid + peptidoglycan and CpG oligodeoxynucleotide 2135. Can. J. Vet. Res. 73: 49-57.

Said, K.B., K. Ramotar, G. Zhu, and X. Zhao. 2009. Repeat-based subtyping and grouping of Staphylococcus aureus from human infections and bovine mastitis using the R-domain of the clumping factor A gene. Diagn. Microbiol. Infect Dis. 63(1): 24.

Verschoor, C.P., S. D. Pant, F. S. Schenkel, B. S. Sharma and N. A. Karrow. 2009. SNPs in the bovine IL-10 receptor are associated with somatic cell score in canadian dairy bulls. Mammalian Genome, Vol: 20, Issue: 7: 447-454.

2008
Atalla, H., C. Gyles, C. Jacob, H. Moisan, F. Malouin, and B.A. Mallard. 2008. Characterization of a Staphylococcus aureus Small Colony Variant (SCV) associated with persistent bovine mastitis. Foodborne Pathog. and Dis. 5(6): 785.

Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M., J.-W. Lee, A.E. Ibeagha, D.D. Bannerman, M.J. Paape, and X. Zhao. 2008. Bacterial lipopolysaccharide induces increased expression of toll-like receptor (TLR) 4 and downstream TLR signalling molecules in bovine mammary epithelial cells. Vet. Res. 39(2): 11.

Ibeagha-Awemu, E.M., J.-W. Lee, A.E. Ibeagha, and X. Zhao. 2008. Bovine CD14 gene characterization and relationship between polymorphisms and surface expression on monocytes and polymorphonuclear neutrophils. BMC Genet. 9: 50.

Leyva, I., F. Schenkel, J. Martin, and N.A. Karrow. 2008. Polymorphisms in the 5’ upstream region of the CXCR1 chemokine receptor gene, and their association with somatic cell score in Holstein cattle in Canada. J. Dairy Sci. 91(1): 407.

Nino-Soto, M., A. Heriazon, M. Quinton, F. Miglior, K. Thompson, and B.A. Mallard. 2008. Differential gene expression of high and low immune responder Canadian Holstein dairy cows. Dev. Biol. (Basel) 132: 315.

Olde Riekerink, R. G. M., H. W. Barkema, D. F. Kelton, and D. T. Scholl. 2008. Incidence rate of clinical mastitis on Canadian dairy farms. J. Dairy Sci. 91:1366-1377.

Pant, S.D., F.S. Schenkel, I. Leyva, B.S. Sharma, and N.A. Karrow. 2008. Identification of polymorphisms in bovine TLR-2 and CARD15, and associations between CARD15 polymorphisms and milk somatic cell score in Canadian Holsteins, and functional relevance of SNP c.3020A>T. Dev. Biol. (Basel) 132: 247.

Sharma, B.S., J. Mount, and N.A. Karrow. 2008. Functional characterization of a single nucleotide polymorphism in the 5’ UTR region of the bovine toll-like-4 receptor gene. Dev. Biol. (Basel). 132: 331.

2007
Boulanger, D., E. Brouillette, F. Jaspar, F. Malouin, J. Mainil, F. Bureau, P. Lekeux. 2007. Helenalin reduces Staphylococcus aureus infection in vitro and in vivo. Vet. Microbiol. 119:330-338.

Gaudreau, M.C., P. Lacasse, and B.G. Talbot. 2007. Protective immune responses to a multi-gene DNA vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus. Vaccine 25(5):814-824.

Karaolis, D. K. R., T. K. Means, D. Yang, M. Takahashi, T. Yoshimura, E. B. G. Muraille, D. Philpott, J. T. Schroeder, M. Hyodo, Y. Hayakawa, B. Talbot, E. Brouillette, and F. Malouin. 2007. Bacterial c-di-GMP is an immunostimulatory molecule. J. of Immunology 178:2171-2181.

Leyva, I., F. Schenkel, B. S. Sharma, G. B. Jansen and N. A. Karrow. 2007. Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in the bovine CCL2, IL8, CCR2 and IL8RA genes and their association with health and production in Canadian Holsteins. Animal Genetics 38: 198-202.

Olde Riekerink, R.G.M., H.W. Barkema, and H. Stryhn. 2007. The effect of season on somatic cell count and incidence of clinical mastitis. J. Dairy Sci. 90:1704-1715.

Olde Riekerink, R. G. M., H. W. Barkema, W. Veenstra, F. E. Berg, H. Stryhn, and R. N. Zadoks. 2007. Somatic cell count during and between milkings. J. Dairy Sci. 90:3733-3741.

Pant, S. D., F. S. Schenkel, I. Leyva-Baca, B. S. Sharma and N. A. Karrow. 2007. Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms in bovine CARD15 and their associations with health and production traits in Canadian Holsteins. BMC Genomics 8: 421.

Tao, W. and B. A. Mallard. 2007. Differentially expressed genes associated with Staphylococcus aureus mastitis of Canadian Holstein cows. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 120(3-4):201-211.

2006
Allard, M., H. Moisan, E. Brouillette, A. Gervais, M. Jacques, P. Lacasse, M. S. Diarra, and F. Malouin. 2006. Transcriptional modulation of some S. aureus iron-regulated genes during growth in vitro and in a tissue cage model in vivo. Microb. Infect. 8:1679-1690.

Kerro-Dego, O., T. Prysliak, A.A. Potter, and J. Perez-Casal. 2006. DNA-protein immunization against the GapB and GapC proteins of a mastitis isolate of Staphylococcus aureus. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 113:125-138.

Nour El-Din, A., L. Shkreta, B.G. Talbot, M. Diarra, and P. Lacassse. 2006. DNA immunization of dairy cows with the clumping factor A of Staphylococcus aureus. Vaccine 24(12):1997-2006.

Perez-Casal, J., T. Prysliak, O. Kerro-Dego, and A.A. Potter. 2006. Immune responses to a Staphylococcus aureus GapC/B chimera and its potential use as a component of a vaccine for S. aureus mastitis. Vet. Immunol. Immunopathol. 109:85-97.