Comparison of clinical findings, microbiological results, and farming parameters in goat herds affected by recurrent infectious mastitis

Gangrenous Mastitis: An Important Staphylococcus aureus Related Problem in Goat Husbandry

“…gangrenous mastitis (White and Hinckley, 1999). High morbidity and mortality was observed along with 4% to 40% frequency of S. aureus among all isolated microorganisms recorded (Marogna et al, 2012).…”

“…Mastitis reflects the inflammation of the mammary gland, which may occur due to any bacterial infection secondary to teat injury or poor management (Marogna et al, 2012;Egwu et al, 2001). Important causative agents for mastitis include Streptococcus spp., non-hemolytic Staphylococcus spp., Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas spp.…”

“…Factors influences the prevalence of mastitis in goats includes number of birth and lactation stage (Marogna et al, 2012). Egwu et al, (2001) mentioned more mastitis cases in 2-3 year old does because of increase in milk production in subsequent lactation.…”

“…Diagnose of mastitis possible other than clinical examination of udder, by using other tests like California Mastitis Test (CMT), surf field mastitis test (SFMT) and Electrical Impedance test (EIT) etc. but still best standard is SCC (Marogna et al, 2012).…”

“…Rich supplementation of milk making the goat husbandry more popular, but contrary facing the problem of Mastitis, cause huge economic losses (Egwu et al, 2001;Marogna et al, 2012). According to Margona et al, (2012) 18% of animals are cull or die due to this disease.…”