Converse of object

• treat: Antibiotics to treat mastitis are painfully injected up the teat canal.

• cause: Bacteria causing contagious mastitis are spread from infected quarters to other healthy quarters of the same or other cows.

• include: Describe three significant pests or diseases of dairy cattle, including mastitis.

• develop: When my daughter was 15 months old I developed mastitis.

• prevent: Any improvements in our ability to prevent mastitis are hampered by the very limited funds for research into the condition.

Noun used with modifier

• summer: The epidemiology of summer mastitis; a survey of clinical cases.

Adjective modifier

• sub-clinical: The incidence of both clinical and sub-clinical mastitis has fallen over recent decades.

• subclinical: Production loss from udder quarters with subclinical mastitis has been assessed for several different causative organisms and ranged from 10 % to 26 % .

• contagious: Maintain minimum levels of contagious mastitis in your herd.

• bovine: Cost benefit analysis of bovine mastitis in the UK.

• clinical: A prospective study of clinical mastitis in low somatic cell count UK dairy herds.

• environmental: Cows in cubicles are likely to have more lameness problems and cows in straw yards more cases of environmental mastitis.

Modifies a noun

• pathogen: In general, mastitis pathogens belong to one of two categories: contagious or environmental.

• incidence: Mastitis incidence is not high in the best managed straw yards.

• infection: If the figure is below 250 there is little yield loss in the herd due to mastitis infection of the udder.

• therapy: Antibiotic mastitis therapy should always be supervised by a veterinarian.

• control: An assessment of the economic benefits of a mastitis control scheme.

• treatment: The farm should set up a mastitis treatment recording system.

Preposition: in

• herd: Gives an indication of the level of mastitis in the dairy herd.

• cow: There is, however, very little evidence of the efficacy of homeopathy in either curing or preventing mastitis in dairy cows.