Epidemiology of intramammary infections with Staphylococcus aureus and mastitis streptococci in a dairy cattle herd with a history of recurrent clinical mastitis

Autor: M. Moravkova, D. Cervinkova, I. Vrtkova, D. Marosevic, Vladimir Babak, Z. Jaglic, H. Vlkova
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Polish Journal of Veterinary Sciences. 20:133-139
ISSN: 2300-2557
Popis: The aim of the present work was to examine a dairy herd with an anamnesis of recurrent clinical mastitis and decreased milk production. A total of 239 individual cow milk samples originating from asymptomatic cows were collected at four-month intervals and examined mainly for the presence of Staphylococcus aureus and mastitis streptococci using standard cultivation methods. In total, 29.7% and 9.2% samples were positive for S. aureus and mastitis streptococci, respectively. Unlike for mastitis streptococci, the prevalence of animals positive for S. aureus had an increasing trend (p
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