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The distribution and characters of coagulase-negative staphylococci of the bovine udder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2009

S. J. Edwards  and
G. W. Jones
S. J. Edwards
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Research on Animal Diseases, Compton, Newbury, Berks
G. W. Jones
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Council, Institute for Research on Animal Diseases, Compton, Newbury, Berks
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Summary

Coagulase-negative staphyloccoci were isolated regularly over a period of 39 weeks from quarter milk samples of 18 cows belonging to one herd. They did not produce a leucocytosis in the milk or high anti-haemolysin titres in the blood of these cows, but such responses occurred in 2 cows infected with pathogenic staphylococci. The coagulase-negative variety was found to colonize the teat duct and surface of the teat in preference to the milk and possessed greater resistance than pathogenic staphylococci to certain long-chain fatty acids. Infection with coagulase-negative staphylococci was thought to antagonize the colonization of the udder by a pathogenic variety present in the herd; 23% of the coagulase-negative strains were found to elaborate an antibiotic substance inhibitory to the growth of a coagulase-positive staphylococcus. Coagulase-negative strains were characterized by the production of ɛ-toxin and could be divided into 3 main groups according to their effect on gelatin, mannitol and phenolphthalein diphosphate as substrates.

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Journal of Dairy Research , Volume 33 , Issue 3 , October 1966 , pp. 261 - 270
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Copyright © Proprietors of Journal of Dairy Research 1966

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