PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON BACTERIA RECOVERED FROM MILK OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY UDDERS IN DAIRY CATTLE AT EL HARAM AREA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY

TAWFIK, M.S.; NASHED, S.M.; GODA, F.F.M.; EL-GIBALY, SAMIRA; FARID, A.F.; NADA, S.

doi:10.21608/avmj.1984.190896

PRELIMINARY STUDIES ON BACTERIA RECOVERED FROM MILK OF APPARENTLY HEALTHY UDDERS IN DAIRY CATTLE AT EL HARAM AREA WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY

Document Type : Research article

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10.21608/avmj.1984.190896

Abstract

Milk samples were randomly collected from apparently healthy udders of 1034 milking Friesian cattle for bacteriological examination. 122 atrains were isolated with a recovery rate of 11.8% of the samples. Microorganisms secured were coagulae-positive Staphylococci (60.66%), Streptococci (31.14%) including Str. agalactiae (16.3%), Str. dysgalactiae (11.4%) and Str. uberis (3.2%). In addition, E. coli and C. pyogenes were recovered with an incidence of 4.9% and 3.2% respectively while the recovery rate of double infection was 51.2%.
The secured organisms were sensitive to the following sntibiotics in a descending order: Kanamycin, Erythromycin, Polymyxin, Strepto mycin and Penicillin.