INCIDENCE OF PASTEURELLA SPECIES FROM NEWLY BORN PNEUMONIC CALVES IN KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATE

Mazyed, Gamal El-Din I.; Kassem, Hassan H.; Moawad, Amgad A.; El-Desouky, Ibrahim E.

doi:10.21608/kvmj.2017.110180

INCIDENCE OF PASTEURELLA SPECIES FROM NEWLY BORN PNEUMONIC CALVES IN KAFR EL-SHEIKH GOVERNORATE

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¹ Animal Health Research Institute, Kafrelsheikh, Provisional Lab., Agriculture Research Center, Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt

² Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt

10.21608/kvmj.2017.110180

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Samples were collected from pneumonic calves from both sex under one month in Kafrelsheikh Governorate (150 nasal swabs from living calves and 20 pneumonic calves lung tissues recently dead calves). Samples were examined for the presence of Mannheimia multocida and M. haemolytica. Isolation, biochemical and serologic al identification revealed that a total of 124 non-repeated bacterial isolates were recovered from 170 pneumonic calves samples. Isolation revealed that a total of 47 (37.9%) P. multocida and 38 (30.6%) of M. haemolytica isolates were recovered.

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