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Volume 22 (8):669-674, 2018.
Prevalence
and type of fungi in milk from goats with sub clinical mastitis.
Karrar
Ali Mohammed Hasan, Shaimaa Nabhan
Yassein.
Department of Microbiology, College of Veterinary
Medicine, University of Baghdad. Iraq.
ABSTRACT
Mohammed
Hasan KA, Yassein SN., Prevalence and type of fungi
in milk from goats with sub clinical mastitis, Onl J
Vet Res., 22 (8):669-674,
2018. One
hundred milk samples from apparently healthy goats were subjected to California
mastitis reagent cultured on Sabouraud Dextrose Agar.
Some goats had been treated with penicillin. Fifty three (53%) samples were
positive to the California mastitis test of which 69% were of mycotic
origin. Of these, 16 species of 29 isolates (42.03%) were mould
and 12 of 40 isolates were yeast (57.97%). Moulds found were A. fumigatus (17.24%), Penicillium spp. (13.79%), A. niger and Alternaria spp.
(10.34%), A. terreus and Fusarium spp.
(6.89%), and A. versicolor, Absidia spp., Aureobasidium pullulans, Cladosporium
spp., Curvularia spp., Moniliella
acetoabutens, Moniliella suaveolans, Mucor spp. and Scopulariosis spp., 3.44%. Yeasts isolated were C. albicans (25%), Geotricum
candidum (15%) and C. guilliermondii,
C. parapsilosis, C. tropicalis,
C. kefyer, Chrysosporium spp, Trichosporon spp, Rhodotorula spp. 7.5%
and, C. famata, C. krusei,
and Saccharomyces cerevisiae 2.5%. We report a high incidence of diverse
fungi in milk from goats with sub-clinical mastitis around Baghdad which could
pose a health risk in humans. The findings suggest that antibiotic treatments
may affect incidence of fungi in goat milk.
Key words:
goat, mastitis, Yeast, mould, Milk.
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