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Mycoflora of cervicovaginal fluids in dairy cows with or without reproductive disorders

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Fungal infection of reproduction system of dairy cattle have not been received much more attention. The aim of this study was to determine the fungal infection of Holstein dairy cows with reproductive disorders or healthy. Fungal isolates of cervicovaginal fluids of 176 Holstein dairy cows were collected by using the double rod swabs for cervix and the sterilized cotton swabs for discharges of vagina. They were evaluated for fungal infections. The treatment group included 70 dairy cows with reproductive diseases, such as abortion, repeat breeder, endometritis, metritis, retention of fetal membrane, dystocia, cervicitis, and vaginitis. The control groups were included 42 healthy non-pregnant cows and 64 pregnant cows. Isolates of fungi were obtained from cervix and vagina of 27.1% and 28.6% of treatment group, 26.7% and 31.2% of pregnant cows, and 33.3% and 21.4% of healthy non-pregnant cows, respectively, indicating no significant differences. It is showed that the cervix and vagina of the treatment group have been infected by six different mycotic isolates. However, the cervix and vagina of pregnant and non-pregnant healthy cows in control group were infected with 5, 6 and 5, 4 different fungal agents, respectively. Penicillium and yeast were the most common isolated agents. Regarding to the result of this study, it is concluded that fungal infections can occur in cervicovaginal cavity of Holstein dairy cows with or without reproductive diseases.

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  1. Section of Theriogenology, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, P.O. Box 91775-1793, Mashhad, Iran

    Massoud Talebkhan Garoussi

  2. Mycology Research, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Ali Reza Khosrave

  3. Section of Theriogenology, Department of Clinical Large Animals Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

    Parviz Havareshti

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Garoussi, M.T., Khosrave, A.R. & Havareshti, P. Mycoflora of cervicovaginal fluids in dairy cows with or without reproductive disorders. Mycopathologia 164, 97–100 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-007-9031-x

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