Clinical and Implementation of Epidemiological Information Fungal Milkinfection of Local Breed Goats in Baghdad City

Abstract

Mastitis in goats is a health problem for animals, in addition to reducing the nutritional value of milk, it changes the chemical composition of the milk, weakens the properties of milk processing, and imposes great economic losses on dairy farms today. This study aimed to classify the fungal factors in samples of goat milk. 170 milk samples were collected from each of the goats with clinical, subclinical and without mastitis, as was obtained from animals of clinical health. Goat milk samples were obtained in this analysis from the first six weeks of lactation while the goats were in Baghdad and its suburbs areas.

Samples (approximately 10 mL) were collected in sterile sample bottles and immediately sent to the laboratory for further testing. Samples were also sent to a laboratory to be tested for mastitis. Centrifugation of milk for ten minutes at 4000 rpm peaked in sediment deposition, which was cultured on SDA by sterile cotton swabs. It was incubated at both 25 ° C and 37 ° C for 5 weeks in Petri dishes. Seventeen (11.1 percent) of a total of 170 goat milk samples tested positive for the presence of fungal agents.

     Candida albicans (C.), Candida lusitaniae, Candida parapsilosis, Cryptococcus neoformans, Nocardia spp. , Penicillium spp. , Scopulariopsis brevicaulis, and Aspergillus fumigatus on 3 (1.7 percent) milk tests; 2 (1.1 percent) of samples were positive for Candida (C.) eggs, 2 (1.1 percent) for Candida lucitania, 1 (0.5 percent) for candidiasis, 1 (0.5 percent) for modern Cryptococcus, 2 (1.1 percent). ) For Nocardia spp. (4) 2.3%: No fungal infection was detected in any of the clinical mastitis samples.Finally, in light of the results, the researchers reported that bacteria were the main cause of mastitis, but considered that fungi were mostly responsible as pathogens.