Bacterial causes of mastitis in sheep and goats

ABSTRACT

A total of 100 individual milk samples were collected from ewes and goats suffering from mastitis in dairy herds from different localities in Kafr El-Sheikh Province were examined bacteriologically for the presence of major bacterial pathogens. 45 isolates were obtained from ewes [90%] and 35 isolates from goats [70%]. These isolates were Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus agalactia and Streptococcus dysgalactia, Corynebacterium pyogenes and Corynebacterium ovis, Klebsiella species and Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa