Isolation and identification of bacterial flora and their antibiogram from mastitic milk of goats

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to isolate bacteria from clinical mastitic milk of goats and their antibiogram. A total of 18 milk samples from eleven goats having clinical mastitis were collected and on cultural examination 25 bacterial pathogens were isolated viz. 13/18 Staphylococcus aureus (72.22%) was predominant followed by 7/18 Escherichia coli (38.88%) and 5/18 Klebsiella spp. (27.77%), respectively and their antibiogram revealed 94.44 percent sensitivity to ceftriaxone + tazobactum followed by amoxicillin + clavulanic acid (88.88%), gentamicin (61.11%), ampicillin (55.55%), enrofloxacin (44.44%) and penicillin G (33.33%), respectively.