Mastitis influences milk quality and early detection of mastitis is important. Three major mastitis detection methods are Foss Analysis, Whiteside Test and California Mastitis Test (CMT). CMT is more likely to be applied for monitoring mastitis on-line, yet some uncertainty exists regarding the rheology of CMT gel and factors that influence the CMT accuracy.
In this book, studies were focused on the rheology of CMT gel to understand the mechanism of gel formation and how various factors influence the rheology of the gel. It was found that CMT gel is a DNA/histone/surfactant complex, which is...