mastitis

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The study focused on hospitalized women with mastitis, and showed that community-associated MRSA was much more likely to be found in those who had both mastitis (an inflammation of the milk glands) and abscesses (pockets of infection).

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  • Following shortly after this, the factsheet continues with "Feeding high producing cows for maximum production does increase stress on the udder and may cause infected cows to flare-up, however, restricting production to reduce clinical mastitis is not realistic or economical." —  WordPress.com News
  • (Thursday 2 April), Dr Colin Hill described how his team had used three animal models of disease that have human counterparts - bovine mastitis, porcine salmonellosis (a gastrointestinal disease) and listeriosis in mice (an often fatal form of food poisoning) - to demonstrate the protective effects of probiotics. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • Although sclerosing adenosis, apocrine metaplasia, duct ectasia, lipoma, fat necrosis, and mastitis are scary sounding, they aren't serious and do not increase risk of breast cancer. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • In treating mastitis, veterinarians have tried to get around the vexing issue of antibiotic resistance with a new strategy that uses bacteriophages to attack the infection-causing microbes. —  innovations-report
  • The study focused on hospitalized women with mastitis, and showed that community-associated MRSA was much more likely to be found in those who had both mastitis (an inflammation of the milk glands) and abscesses (pockets of infection). —  EurekAlert! - Breaking News
 

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  1. New Latin, from Greek μαστός, the breast, + -itis.
 

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/mæsˈtaɪtɪs/
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