Preventive bacteriophage treatment to bovine genital catarrh

• Grant number: 12/12191-2
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: July 19, 2012
• End date: January 18, 2013
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Animal Clinics and Surgery
• Principal Investigator: Lilian Gregory
• Grantee: Enoch Brandão de Souza Meira Junior
• Supervisor: Rodrigo Carvalho Bicalho
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: Cornell University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 10/13293-8 - Comparative study on treatments to bovine genital catarrh degrees II and III, BP.DR

Abstract

Endometritis represents a major problem to the clinician once this disease harms the herd's fertility. Even though the losses caused by this disease are well known there is still great controversy on treatment options. This study has as an objective to evaluate a profilatic treatment evolving a bacteriophage cocktail. 280 bovine are going to be randomly divided in experimental groups, treatment and control, for this purpose. Results are going to be submitted to statiscal analyses. (AU)