Evaluation of effects of Mycoplasma mastitis on milk composition in dairy cattle from South Australia.

Autor: Al-Farha AA; School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, 5371, Australia. abdal-barahmednoori.al-farha@adelaide.edu.au.; Northern Technical University, Technical Foundation, Mosul, Iraq. abdal-barahmednoori.al-farha@adelaide.edu.au., Hemmatzadeh F; School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, 5371, Australia.; Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia., Khazandi M; School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, 5371, Australia.; Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia., Hoare A; South East Vets, Mt Gambier, South Australia, 5290, Australia., Petrovski K; School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, 5371, Australia.; Australian Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Ecology, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia.; Davies Centre, School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Roseworthy, South Australia, 5371, Australia.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: BMC veterinary research [BMC Vet Res] 2017 Nov 25; Vol. 13 (1), pp. 351. Date of Electronic Publication: 2017 Nov 25.
DOI: 10.1186/s12917-017-1274-2
Abstrakt: Background: Mycoplasma mastitis is increasingly posing significant impact on dairy industry. Although the effects of major conventional mastitis pathogens on milk components has been widely addressed in the literature, limited data on the effects of different Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma spp. on milk quality and quantity is available. The aim of this study was to determine the casual relationship of Mycoplasma spp. and A. laidlawii to mastitis and compare them to subclinical mastitis caused by conventional mastitis pathogens from a single dairy herd in South Australia; Mycoplasma spp. and A. laidlawii were detected using PCR applied directly to milk samples. The herd had mastitis problem with high somatic cell count and low response rate to conventional antimicrobial therapy. A total of 288 cow-level milk samples were collected aseptically and used in this study.
Results: Conventional culture showed a predominance of coagulase-negative staphylococci, followed by coagulase-positive staphylococci, Streptococcus spp., Enterococcus spp., E. coli, and Klebsiella spp. PCR results showed a high prevalence of mycoplasmas (76.7%), including A. laidlawii (10.8%), M. bovis (6.2%), M. bovirhinis (5.6%), M. arginini (2%), and (52.1%) of cows were co-infected with two or more Mycoplasma and Acholeplasma species. Mycoplasma co-infection significantly increased somatic cell counts (SCC) similar to conventional mastitis pathogens and compared to non-infected cows with 389.3, 550.3 and 67.3 respectively; and decreased the milk yield with 29.0, 29.9 and 34.4 l, respectively. Mycoplasma co-infection caused significant increase in protein percentage, and significant decrease in fat percentage and total milk solids, similar to other conventional mastitis pathogens. In contrast, changes in milk composition and yield caused by various individual Mycoplasma species were non-significant.
Conclusions: Mycoplasma mastitis had on-farm economic consequences similar to common conventional mastitis pathogens. Results of our study indicate that co-infection Mycoplasma mastitis caused similar effect on milk composition to other mastitis pathogens and we hope these findings raise the awareness of the importance of their detection on routine diagnostic panels.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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