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MASTITIS DIAGNOSIS: Tips to make it easier

  • August 4, 2020

Mastitis Diagnosis in sheep and goats may seem complicated. Many different factors are involved in the development of the disease. However, if we determine the aetiological origin: animal-associated, environmental or opportunistic bacteria, it becomes easier to understand and establish control measures.

 

EASY CLASSIFICATION TO CHARACTERIZE THE PROBLEM

In order to identify the cause(s) of mastitis and take the right measures to control them, we must have the following figure in mind.

Mastitis in sheep and goats: Aetiological factors
Figure 1: Aetiological factors of intra-mammary infections

Once we understand this figure, we can determine the 3 different origins that will help with the interpretation of laboratory results. Three tables have been created with this objective.

“Individual animal, micro-organism and management play a role in the development of the disease”

Animal-associated bacteria isolated from clinical or subclinical intra-mammary infections in ewes and goats.

Pathogen types causing mastitis in sheep and goats

Environmental bacteria isolated from clinical or subclinical intra-mammary infections in ewes and goats

Opportunist antibiotic-resistant bacteria isolated from clinical or subclinical intra-mammary infections in ewes and goats.

Note that a bacteriological result with:

· One cultured colony type is conventionally considered valid (even though other types may have been present without significant growth on the media)

· Two cultured colony types have to be validated according to the identified species (one or both may be a sample contaminant)

· Three or more cultured colony types should be considered as not valid (contaminated).

 

KEY FEATURES OF THE MAIN CAUSATIVE AGENTS

S. aureus isolates from sheep and goat milk samples are related, and differ from bovine milk samples by displaying more variability. Strains show a pronounced adaptation to small ruminants. Caprine and ovine strains are more leucotoxic than bovine ones (Bergonier et al., 2014; Bar-Gal et al., 2015; Merz et al., 2016).

S. aureus (trypticase soy agar and RPF media).

 

The most commonly isolated species of CNS include S. epidermidis, S. xylosus, S. chromogenes, and S. simulans; S. caprae is also commonly detected in goats, but also in ewes. These four species are also the most pathogenic species amongst CNS, as demonstrated by individual SCC. About twenty other species are regularly or rarely isolated. Moreover, several infrequent coagulase-positive species may be isolated from small ruminant IMI (S. intermedius, S. hyicus, etc.); they can grow when plated on to RPF (Rabbit Plasma Fibrinogen) agar.

“S. epidermidis, S. xylosus, S. chromogenes and S. simulans are the most frequent and pathogenic CNS”

Among Coryneforms, few Trueperella pyogenes are isolated in cases of subclinical IMI; the Corynebacterium genus includes a series of species generally unidentified or misidentified (by conventional biochemical methods) whose pathogenic properties are not well differentiated.

Mastitis in goats and sheep culture plate e. coli
E. coli (trypticase soy agar and EMB media).

Regarding the Streptococcus genus, the common species are partly region -or country- dependent: S. agalactiae in ewes in Spain or Portugal (Guerreiro et al., 2013), S. uberis in Sardinia (Marogna et al., 2010), S. ovis and Aerococcus viridans in France (ewes), etc.

The reservoirs and transmission modes of these various organisms are partly different; indeed, bacteriological examinations with species are needed to target the main epidemiological IMI models (contagious vs. lamb-mediated vs. environmental mastitis) when implementing control programmes.

References:

  • Adapted from Ovipedia Article created by Dominique Bergonier, DVM, Dipl. ECAR, Dipl. ECSRHM, Professor and Researcher at the National Veterinary School (ENV Toulouse) and INRA (France)

 

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