ETIOLOGY OF THE BOVINE CLINICAL MASTITIS IN GOIÂNIA

Authors

  • Paulo César Moreira UCG
  • Luiz Antônio Franco da Silva UFG
  • Albenones José de Mesquita UFG

Keywords:

Bovine mastitis, etiology, isolated microorganisms

Abstract

There is an estimate that the mastitis in dairy herds causes production losses between 5 and 35%, equivalent from 85 to 500 million dollars per year. 231 milk samples from 231 cows on different stages of lactation, with clinic mastitis, from 35 farms of Goiânia, were analyzed in order to map the pathogens implicated in these process and to discover the microorganisms with major prevalence. All the samples had positive growth. The principal agents were Staphylococcus coagulase positive (32.90%), Streptococcus sp. (22.07%), Pseudomonas sp. (12.12%), Enterobacter sp. (10.38%), Corynebacterium sp. (8.65%), Escherichia coli (8.22%), Bacillus sp. (8.22%), Proteus sp. (6.49%), Klebsiella sp. (4.32%) and Staphylococcus coagulase negative (3.46%). The Nocardia genus was isolated in 0.86% of the cases.

KEY-WORDS: Bovine mastitis; etiology; isolated microorganisms.

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Published

2007-12-18

How to Cite

MOREIRA, P. C.; SILVA, L. A. F. da; MESQUITA, A. J. de. ETIOLOGY OF THE BOVINE CLINICAL MASTITIS IN GOIÂNIA. Pesquisa Agropecuária Tropical [Agricultural Research in the Tropics], Goiânia, v. 27, n. 2, p. 69–74, 2007. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/pat/article/view/2971. Acesso em: 22 dec. 2024.

Issue

v. 27, n. 2, Jul./Dec. 1997

Section

Research Article

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