Antibiogram study of isolated bacteria from repeat breeding cattles in Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh

Abstract

The samples of cervical mucus of 21 crossbred and 20 Desi cows in and around the NDUAT Campus, Narendranagar, Faizabad (Utter-Pradesh). The isolation of bacteria and in-vitro sensitivity pattern of various drugs against these isolates were carried out. The bacterial isolates comprised of Staphylococcus spp. Streptococcus spp. Pseudomonas spp. Anthracoids spp. E. coli, Corynaebacterium spp. And some of the untyped Gram positive and Gram negative bacilli and coccobacilli among 14 crossbred and Desi cows with positive infection. Gentamicin was found effective in 92.9 per cent cases. The other drugs followed after Gentamicin in crossbred cows were ampicillin, Kenamycin and tetracycline in 28.6, 21.4 and 14.3 per cent cases respectively, whereas in desi cows other drug found effective were tetracycline, Kenamycin, Chloramphenicol, Streptomycin and ampicillin in 42.9, 42.9, 35.7,14.3 and 7.1 per cent cases respectively.