Impact of a nutritional immunomodulator in dry cows heat stressed with an electric blanket model.

Heat stress (HT) in the dry period reduces yield and health in the next lactation. Previous work indicates that feeding OmniGen-AF® (OMN) mitigates the detrimental effects of HT. Electric blankets (EB) can induce heat stress in lactating cows, but EB have not been used with dry cows.

Birth season affects cow longevity.

Dairy cow longevity is an important economic trait for producers. In modern dairy farming, longevity of dairy cows is the result of culling decisions, which are determined by several risk factors, including diseases, and reproductive and productive performance. Previous studies have documented that seasonal changes affect health, behavior, and performance of dairy cows throughout their life cycle.

Long-term oritavancin therapy for shoulder prosthetic joint infection: A case guided by therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM).

Oritavancin is a novel long-acting lipoglycopeptide with in vitro activity against methicillin-resistant (MR) Gram-positive pathogens and a good bactericidal activity even in presence of biofilm forming bacteria. It has been approved for acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections (ABSSSI), but recent reports have demonstrated possible off-label uses, as for prosthetic joint infections (PJI), which, in more than half of cases, are caused by MR Gram positive organisms. W reported a case of a man in his eighties with a late shoulder PJI caused by methicillin resistant (MRSE) with contraindications for surgical replacement and few oral therapeutic options for a long term suppressive antibiotic therapy.