Mastitis diagnosing apparatus

A mastitis diagnosing apparatus comprising:

• a memory which stores a corresponding relationship between the number of photons emitted in proportion to the amount of active oxygen released when phagocytic leukocytes phagocytose bacteria in milk and the degree of progression of mastitis due to said bacteria;
• reagent injection means which injects an emission enhancer and phagocyte stimulator into a set test tube in which the milk itself and a culture solution are mixed;
• stirring means which stirs with a prescribed period of stirring the test tube into which the emission enhancer and phagocyte stimulator have been injected from the reagent injection means;
• incubation means which keeps the test tube stirred by the stirring means at a constant temperature;
• photon counting means which counts within a prescribed period of time the number of photons emitted when bacteria are phagocytosed by phagocytic leukocytes contained in the milk in the test tube incubated by the incubation means;
• diagnosing means which refers to said memory and, based on the number of photons counted by the photon counting means, diagnoses the degree of progression of mastitis corresponding to said number of photons;
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• output means which outputs the degree of progression of mastitis diagnosed by the diagnosing means.