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RESEARCH IN VETERINARY SCIENCE
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 186-193Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.rvsc.2020.04.025
Keywords
Antimicrobial; Essential oil; Mastitis; Pathogen; Plant extract
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- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq, Brazil)
- Coordenacao de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Ensino Superior (CAPES, Brazil)
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Bovine mastitis is the most important disease affecting dairy herds worldwide, causing direct impacts on farms' profitability and food safety issues. The prevention and treatment of this pathology is especially done through antimicrobials, but the increasing antimicrobial resistance of pathogens to this disease may affect the efficiency of conventional drugs. Besides, antimicrobials residues in milk and the environment are a potential threat to human health. Thereby, the use of plant extracts and essential oils may become promising alternatives for the control of bovine mastitis. Antimicrobial properties present in several plants are well described and plant extracts and essential oils are often considered safe to animals, humans and environment. This review summarizes the current problems encountered in the conventional treatment of mastitis, the possibilities of the use of plant extracts and essential oils as alternative agents for the control of these pathogens and the limitations found in the use of these plant derivatives. Finally, the perspectives to the use of plant extracts and essential oils for the treatment of bovine mastitis are presented.
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