Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Sensitive test for screening for Staphylococcus aureus in bovine mastitis by broth cultivation and PCR.
- Journal:
- The Veterinary record
- Year:
- 2007
- Authors:
- Yamagishi, N et al.
- Affiliation:
- Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine · Japan
Abstract
An assay was developed and evaluated for screening for Staphylococcus aureus in milk samples from cases of bovine mastitis by overnight cultivation in a broth containing 7.5 per cent sodium chloride, followed by pcr to amplify the nuc gene. The assay could detect concentrations of S aureus as low as 1 colony-forming unit/ml milk. Among 106 milk samples collected from individual quarters of lactating cows in one dairy herd and from a bulk tank, S aureus was detected in nine samples by the pcr assay but in only three samples by conventional microbiological culture.
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