Dry cow therapy with a non-antibiotic intramammary teat seal - a review

Table 4 Incidence of clinical mastitis in the dry period and new infection status at calving in seven dairy herds (Adapted from 3]).

	New clinical cases in dry period			New IMI at calving
	Seal	Untreated	Seal	Untreated
No. of quarters at risk	784	812	784	799
No. of new infections	0^a	10^b	27^c	93^d

Numbers within columns marked with ^a,b or ^c,d, differ significantly (P = 0.0011 or P < 0.001, respectively) between treatments.

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