Table 2 Results of culture of secretions recovered from 547 mammary glands with clinical mastitis.
From: Clinical mastitis in ewes; bacteriology, epidemiology and clinical features
Bacteriological finding | n | % |
|---|---|---|
Staphylococcus aureus | 357 | 65.3 |
Coagulase-negative staphylococci | 16 | 2.9 |
Streptococcus uberis | 9 | 1.6 |
Streptococcus dysgalactiae a | 8 | 1.5 |
Streptococcus spp.b | 8 | 1.5 |
Enterococcus spp. | 4 | 0.7 |
Escherichia coli | 35 | 6.4 |
Klebsiella pneumoniae | 2 | 0.4 |
Enterobacter spp. | 3 | 0.5 |
Mannheimia haemolytica | 10 | 1.8 |
Arcanobacterium pyogenes | 4 | 0.7 |
Clostridium perfringens | 7 | 1.3 |
Pasteurella spp.c | 4 | 0.7 |
No growth | 72 | 13.2 |
Contaminated samplesd | 8 | 1.5 |