LabMastis®
Decision-Support Tool for Dairy Farmers
To avoid antibiotics when not justified
A situation every farmer knows
Somatic cell count is rising
What should you do?
👉 Treat immediately?
👉 Wait and risk worsening the situation?
In either case, the consequences can be costly:
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Milk penalties
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Production losses
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Animal pain
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Herd disorganization
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Use of antibiotics that may sometimes be unnecessary
The easiest tool to Decide at the right time
LABMASTIS®
LABMASTIS® is a decision-support tool designed for farmers who want to:
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Understand the real cause of rising somatic cell counts
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Make treatment decisions with confidence
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Reduce unnecessary use of antibiotics
Simple. Fast. Cost-effective.
🟢 Only 3 minute of handling
🟢 Results available between 2 milkings
🟢 85% of reliability *
*All diseases are progressive. The result is valid on the day of testing.
The real problem
Somatic cell count is not specific
It indicates inflammation, but it doesn’t explain the cause.
Result:
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Unjustified antibiotic treatments
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Increased pressure on antibiotic resistance
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Decisions made without sufficient information
40% of cases do not justify antibiotic treatment
How it works (Protocol overview)
- 1. Take few drops of milk into LabMastis medium
- 2. Incubate at 37°C, Color readable from 8h
- Best between 10h-14h of incubation
- No color change = Milk with low or no major mastitis pathogens
- Color change = Milk containing significant loads of major mastitis pathogens
SPECIFICITY
A huge BioBank of Phages
The specificity of each test is attributed to the unique capture proteins, which are tailored to detect specific strains or families of bacterial strains. Since 2017, VETOPHAGE has been developing a diverse phage bank, characterizing thousands of phage proteins capable of either identifying (capture proteins) or killing (endolysins) specific bacteria.