Mastitis detection in sheep by infrared thermography

Infrared thermography: A potential noninvasive tool to monitor udder health status in dairy cows

“…IRT is widely used to identify localized areas of inflammation, such as mastitis in lactating cows [17-19], foot and mouth disease [20], assessment of tissue damage and healing due to hot versus cold branding in cattle [21], Laminitis [7,8], detection of bovine viral diarrhea in calves [22], monitoring respiratory disorders [23], Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae infection in pigs [24], detection of estrus and prediction of ovulation in cattle and gilts [5,6,25,26], to assess the effect of scrotal temperature on sperm production in bulls [27-29], assessing meat quality in pigs [30], for identification of stress [31], measurement of feather cover [32], effects of machine milking on teat and udder [33], surface temperature, estimation of heat and methane production in dairy cattle [34], screening of cattle for feed utilization efficiency [9,35], pregnancy diagnosis in mare and wild animals [36,37], evaluation of thermal status of neonatal pigs [38], monitoring stress during animal transit and welfare in wild animals [39], assessment of surface temperature of buffaloe bulls and its correlation with rectal temperature [40] and for the evaluation of thermoregulatory capacity of dairy buffaloes [41]. …”

“…Martins et al . [35] evaluated the use of IRT for mastitis diagnosis in relation with SCC and milk composition in sheep. The UST was higher for subclinical mastitis group.…”

The use of digital infrared thermography and measurement of oxidative stress biomarkers as tools to diagnose foot lesions in sheep

“…In this circumstance, infrared thermography (IRT) might be useful for rapid screening of foot lesions in sheep. In veterinary medicine, IRT has been successfully used in various applications such as for the detection of bovine viral diarrhoea (Schaefer et al, 2004), bovine respiratory disease (Schaefer et al, 2007(Schaefer et al, , 2012, foot-and-mouth disease (RainwaterLovett et al, 2009), bluetongue (Pérez de Diego et al, 2013 and clinical mastitis (Hovinen et al, 2008;Polat et al, 2010;Martins et al, 2013) and to test for detection of oestrus in dairy cows (Talukder et al, 2014b). Infrared thermography has also been applied to diagnose hoof and foot lesions in horses and cattle (Alsaaod and Büscher, 2012;Main et al, 2012;Stokes et al, 2012;Alsaaod et al, 2014).…”

Infrared Thermography as a Prognostic Livestock Agrotechnology: A Critique

“…Therefore, the potential exists to monitor and quantify the physiological and health states of underlying tissues by measuring skin temperature and its circadian, day-to-day, seasonal, and circannual oscillations [8]. The IRT may be utilized to diagnose inflammatory conditions, such as sole abscesses and laminitis in horses and dairy cows [1,3,4,6], hot-iron and freeze branding in cattle [9], whole body physiological state using eye temperature in equine and ruminants [10], and mastitis in dairy cows, sheep and camel [11][12][13][14]. For instance, feet soles suffering from subclinical laminitis appear soft and warm well before other clinical and severe signs (e.g., color changes, lesions, hemorrhages, and ulcers) appear [6].…”