Antibiogram of CoPS and CoNS Isolated from Bovine Mastitis in Banaskantha District of Gujarat, India

Bovine mastitis is one of the major ill-health of cattle and buffaloes, responsible for great economic loss to dairy industry affecting livestock farmers worldwide. The major economic consequences of clinical bovine mastitis are due to treatment, loss in milk production, culling, changes in product quality and the risk of other diseases (Halasa et al., 2007). For etiological diagnosis of bovine mastitis, staphylococci are divided into coagulase-positive staphylococci (CoPS) and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) based on the ability to coagulate rabbit plasma. CoPS are almost solely represented by Staphylococcus aureus, an important cause of udder infections in dairy herds (Barkema et al., 2006). Although, pathogenic S. aureus are coagulase positive, but some strains of S. aureus are also reported to be coagulase negative which causes mastitis in dairy International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 6 Number 10 (2017) pp. 564-569 Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com