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Table 4.

Incidence of clinical mastitis in the dry period and new infection status at calving in seven dairy herds (Adapted from 3]).

New clinical cases in dry period New IMI at calving
Seal Untreated Seal Untreated

No. of quarters at risk 784 812 784 799

No. of new infections 0a 10b 27c 93d

Numbers within columns marked with a,b or c,d, differ significantly (P = 0.0011 or P < 0.001, respectively) between treatments.