The objective of the present study was to evaluate the health status of cows from large farms. Examinations for evidence of mastitis included the cows from five farms located in the Podkarpacie, Malopolska, Silesia, Opolszczyzna and Lubelszczyzna regions, Poland between 2007 and 2008, where a total ...

The purpose of this study was to isolate fungi from the quarter milk of cow udders in 9 dairy farms. The samples were collected between May 1996 and April 2000 in the Lublin region of Poland. Six hundred and four milk samples collected from the quarters of 172 cows with clinical and subclinical...

Drug resistance patterns of 1560 bacterial strains isolated from cows with clinical mastitis on a farm in Poland between 1987 and 1996 are analysed. Isolated bacteria included Streptococcus agalactiae, Streptococcus sp., Staphylococcus sp., and Enterobacteriaceae. Changes in resistance patterns to...

Among 1496 streptococcal strains (96 Streptococcus agalactiae, 902 Streptococcus dysgalactiae, and 499 Streptococcus uberis) and 680 staphylococcal strains, 82 and 86% (respectively) were sensitive to penicillin, 41 and 90% to streptomycin, 82 and 88% to chloramphenicol, 78 and 76% to...

871 Staphylococcus strains, of which 601 fermented mannitol, and 751 Streptococcus strains, of which 55 were S. agalactiae, 491 S. dysgalactiae and 205 S. uberis, were tested by the disk method for sensitivity to penicillin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, neomycin and oxytetracycline. 84.1% of the...