REPRODUCTIVE DISORDERS CAUSED BY CORYNEBACTERIUM OVIS INFECTION IN IMPORTED MERINO RAMS II. Isolation and Identification of the Causative organisms

Document Type : Research article

Authors

Department of Obstet., Greac. 4.1. Foc. of Vet. Med. Zagazig University

Abstract

Out of 133 semen samples collected from normally and clinically abnormal genitalia, 50 strains of C. ovis was recovered in associa tion with C. Pyogenes in 5 cases haemolytic streptococci in 8, Staph. aureus in 4 and E. coli in 3. C. ovis was also isolated in pure culture from pathological lesions in the reproductive organs and the regional lymph nodes of 13 slaughtered rams.
A bacteriological study of all the recovered C. ovis strains as well as the identification of other isolates was performed. Dissimination of the isolates in the semen, despite of failure of isolation from testicles, was discussed.