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Survey of Bovine Mycotic Mastitis in Different Mammary Gland Statuses in Two North-Eastern Regions of Algeria

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The aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of mycotic mastitis in different mammary gland statuses. The study was conducted on 304 dairy cows from ten farms in two north-eastern regions in Algeria; Guelma and Souk Ahras with 922 and 199 samples, respectively, forming thus a total number of 1,121 milk samples. A total of 321 milk samples were collected from clinical mastitis, 544 milk samples from subclinical mastitis and 256 milk samples from healthy mammary glands. Mycological analyses revealed that 10.17 % of the treated samples were positive recording 114 species of fungi including 88 yeasts and 26 moulds. The most frequent species was Candida kefyr followed by C. albicans, C. guilliermondii, C. famata, C. tropicalis, C. colliculosa, C. krusei, C. rugosa, C. glabrata, C. parapsilosis, C. inconspicua, Trichosporon sp., Rhodotorula glutinis and Saccharomyces fragilis. Mould species have also been isolated from samples of both healthy milk and clinical mastitis milk. Aspergillus amstelodami (from glaucus group), A. fumigatus and Geotrichum candidum were identified, while the other species including Penicillium sp. and Cladosporium sp. were not identified.

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  1. Institut des Sciences Vétérinaires, Université Chadli Bendjedid d’El-Tarf, BP 73, 36000, El-Tarf, Algeria

    Samir Ksouri & Ahmed Benakhla

  2. Faculté des Sciences de la Nature et de la Vie et des Sciences de la Terre et de l’Univers, Université de 8 Mai 1945 de Guelma, BP 401, 24000, Guelma, Algeria

    Somia Djebir

  3. Laboratoire de Chimie Analytique, Département de Pharmacie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Bedji Moukhtar d’Annaba, Route de Zaafrania BP 205, 23000, Annaba, Algeria

    Youcef Hadef

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Ksouri, S., Djebir, S., Hadef, Y. et al. Survey of Bovine Mycotic Mastitis in Different Mammary Gland Statuses in Two North-Eastern Regions of Algeria. Mycopathologia 179, 327–331 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11046-014-9845-2

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