The study attempts to compute the effect of dry period therapy on occurrence of mastitis in buffaloes with the help of control (164 buffaloes) and treatment (330 buffaloes) groups at different stages as per disease diagnostic protocol. The data pertains to the year 2018-19. The study concludes overall prevalence of SCM at dry-off was 83.81% and at 5 days postpartum was 38.87% at animal level. In treatment group, prevalence of SCM was 89.70% and 28.48% at dry-off and 5 days postpartum respectively whereas 73.17% and 62.8% in control group. The most prevalent udder pathogens isolated from composite milk samples at dry off were coagulase-negative Staphylococcus, representing 41.29% of all recovered isolates followed by other gram positive, Streptococcus spp. Overall, 63.02% of buffaloes with IMI were cured during the dry period. Buffaloes receiving dry period therapy were 3.85 times more likely to cure.

The Pasteurella multocida subsp. multocida B:2 serotype causes hemorrhagic septicemia in bubalines with high morbidity and mortality in the Indian subcontinent. We report the draft genome sequence of Pasteurella multocida strain VTCCBAA264 isolated from the small-intestine of a buffalo calf that died of high fever.

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The present study was aimed to isolate and characterize phenotypically as well as genotypically bacterial strain from tracheal froth of a Murrah buffalo on the Government livestock farm (GLF) located at Hisar, Haryana. The isolate showed the cultural, morphological and biochemical properties of Mannheimia haemolytica as per Bergey's manual of determinative bacteriology and as confirmed by GENIII microplate (biolog). However, the isolate was further confirmed as Mannheimia varigena by 16S rRNA sequencing.