Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part F (2024)

Author(s): Dixit K Parasana, Pushpa M Makwana, Pallavi Maddela, IH Kalyani, Dharmesh R Patel and Sadaf Jan

Abstract: Mastitis is considered as a major economic condition of a dairy animals. The present study was carried out to investigate role of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) in bovine mastitis. Total 40 Staphylococcus isolates were used for molecular detection of CoNS. Various CoNS were identified up to species level by PCR. The most predominant species identified was Staphylococcus epidermidis (20%), followed by Staphylococcus haemolyticus (15%), Staphylococcus chromogenes (12.5%), Staphylococcus fluerettii (7.5%), Staphylococcus sciuri (2.5%) and Staphylococcus simulans (2.5%). Our findings indicate that coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are also important in the development of mastitis in bovines.