Correction updates authorship on dairy antibiotic cost study

Frontiers in Veterinary Science has published a correction to a January 7, 2026, research article on veterinary drug and antibiotic costs in 20 commercial dairy herds across Czechia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The correction adds Attila Dobos as an author and updates the author contributions statement; the journal says the original article has been updated and that the conflict of interest statement is unchanged. The underlying study itself did not change: it reported average veterinary drug costs of €63.3 per cow in 2019, with antibiotics accounting for the largest share of spending at 40.8%, led largely by mastitis-related use and cephalosporin products. (frontiersin.org)

Why it matters: For veterinary professionals, this is mainly a publication-record update rather than a change in the paper’s findings. Still, the study remains relevant because it puts numbers around how heavily antibiotic spending shapes herd-level medicine budgets in Central European dairy systems, especially for mastitis, at a time when EU veterinary medicine rules continue to push more prudent antimicrobial use and surveillance. (frontiersin.org)

What to watch: Watch for whether this paper is cited in future stewardship discussions around mastitis treatment, cephalosporin use, and farm-level antimicrobial benchmarking in European dairy practice. (frontiersin.org)