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Research
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Prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of
coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from
bovine mastitis -
B. B. Kaliwal, S. O. Sadashiv, M. M. Kurjogi, R.
D. Sanakal
Vet World. 2011; 4(4): 158-161
doi:
10.5455/vetworld.2011.158-161
Abstract
The study was carried out to investigate the
prevalence and antimicrobial susceptibility of
Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci isolated from
Bovine Mastitis in and around Dharwad region. A
total of 310 samples were screened and 180
confirmed Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci were
obtained. The antimicrobial susceptibility of
Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci against 10
antimicrobial agents was tested using the disc
diffusion method. The highest numbers of Coagulase-Negative
Staphylococci were susceptible to ceftriaxone
83.88% followed by cefotaxime 79.41%, methicillin
76.47%, ciprofloxacin 73.52%, erythromycin 70.05%,
amikacin 66.11%, gentamycin 42.94%, amoxicillin
36.76%, ampicillin 29.41%, and the lowest
susceptibility was shown in penicillin 23.23% .
The results indicated that the increase in
prevalence and antibiotic resistance pattern of
the Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci isolated from
bovine mastitis exhibited the highest degree of
susceptible to ceftriaxone of all the tested
antimicrobial agents.
Keywords: Bovine
mastitis, Coagulase negative staphylococcus,
Prevalence, Antibiotics.
