Dubuc J, Arango-Sabogal J C, Fauteux V, Denis-Robichaud J, Buczinski S
Faculté de médecine vétérinaire, Université de Montréal, Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, J2S 7C6, Canada.
Independent researcher, Amqui, Québec, G5J 2N5, Canada.
JDS Commun. 2025 Jan 10;6(3):378-382. doi: 10.3168/jdsc.2024-0691. eCollection 2025 May.
The objective of the study was to quantify the effect of administering intrauterine cephapirin in cows ≥100 DIM affected by purulent vaginal discharge (PVD) or endometritis (ENDO) on pregnancy. A randomized controlled trial was conducted in 31 conveniently selected commercial dairy herds. In these herds, cows ≥100 DIM identified as nonpregnant during regular veterinary herd health visits were enrolled and tested for PVD (Metricheck score: fleck of pus or worse) and ENDO (cytobrush combined with a leukocyte esterase test: trace leukocytes or worse). Cows could be enrolled more than once during the study period, and the unit of interest in this study was enrollment (enrollments nested within cows nested within herds). Cows that tested positive for PVD (including cows with PVD only and those with both PVD and ENDO) or ENDO only were randomly allocated to either a treatment, which received 640 mg of intrauterine cephapirin benzathine, or a negative control that received no treatment. Cows unaffected by PVD or ENDO did not receive treatment (healthy control group). Cows from the 5 study groups were reinseminated by artificial insemination (AI) 10 d after enrollment following the same standardized timed-AI protocol (Ovsynch56). We used generalized linear mixed models (logit link) accounting for clustering at the cow and herd levels to compare study groups and compute the probability of pregnancy at AI. Season, DIM, and parity were included in the final model as confounders. Data from 1,686 enrollments (from 1,423 cows) were analyzed. A total of 498 examinations (29.6%) were classified as PVD (PVD only: n = 431; PVD and ENDO: n = 67), and 506 (29.9%) were classified as ENDO. The remaining 682 enrollments (40.5%) were classified as unaffected. Based on the final model, the probability of reproductive success was 42.9% for unaffected cows, 23.2% and 25.1% for untreated cows with PVD and ENDO, respectively, and 37.1% and 37.9% for treated cows with PVD and ENDO, respectively. These results showed that cephapirin improved the reproductive odds of cows ≥100 DIM affected by PVD or ENDO.
本研究的目的是量化对患有脓性阴道分泌物(PVD)或子宫内膜炎(ENDO)且产犊间隔≥100天的奶牛进行子宫内注射头孢匹林对妊娠的影响。在31个方便选取的商业奶牛场进行了一项随机对照试验。在这些牛场中,将在常规兽医群体健康检查中被确定为未怀孕且产犊间隔≥100天的奶牛纳入研究,并对其进行PVD检测(Metricheck评分:有脓液斑点或更严重)和ENDO检测(细胞刷联合白细胞酯酶试验:微量白细胞或更严重)。在研究期间,奶牛可以多次纳入,本研究关注的单位是纳入情况(纳入情况嵌套在奶牛中,奶牛嵌套在牛场中)。PVD检测呈阳性的奶牛(包括仅患有PVD的奶牛以及同时患有PVD和ENDO的奶牛)或仅ENDO检测呈阳性的奶牛被随机分配至治疗组,治疗组接受640毫克苄星头孢匹林子宫内注射,或分配至未接受治疗的阴性对照组。未受PVD或ENDO影响的奶牛不接受治疗(健康对照组)。来自5个研究组的奶牛在纳入后10天按照相同的标准化定时人工授精方案(Ovsynch56)进行人工授精(AI)。我们使用广义线性混合模型(logit连接),考虑奶牛和牛场水平的聚类情况,以比较研究组并计算人工授精时的妊娠概率。最终模型中纳入季节、产犊间隔和胎次作为混杂因素。对来自1686次纳入情况(来自1423头奶牛)的数据进行了分析。共有498次检查(29.6%)被归类为PVD(仅PVD:n = 431;PVD和ENDO:n = 67),506次(29.9%)被归类为ENDO。其余682次纳入情况(40.5%)被归类为未受影响。根据最终模型,未受影响的奶牛繁殖成功的概率为42.9%,未治疗的PVD奶牛和ENDO奶牛的繁殖成功概率分别为23.2%和25.1%,接受治疗的PVD奶牛和ENDO奶牛的繁殖成功概率分别为37.1%和37.9%。这些结果表明,头孢匹林提高了受PVD或ENDO影响且产犊间隔≥100天的奶牛的繁殖几率。