The incidence of coliform mastitis caused by E.coli

Abstract

Dairy project of private sector was selected to find out the incidence of
mastitis due to E.coli or other pathogen .This dairy project was under bad
managemental feeding, housing and health practices. This dairy project was
included 80 cows ,thirty two cows were at milking period while the other 48
were dry .Milk samples from the teats of each milking cow was collected to find
out the infected quarters or udder with mastitis either by E.coli or other
microorganism using nutrient agar ,eosin methylene blue agar and MacConky
agar then using the biochemical test as completed tests .The result revealed that
twenty six cows out of thirty two were shown positive result with mastitis
.E.coli infection was highly designated (65.38 %).Single infected quarters
showed high infection rate .Anterior right and posterior left quarters recorded
higher infection rate than other quarters. Single infection of the anterior right
quarter manifested among other single infected quarters .E.coli was not
specialized in any quarter.