Veterinaria

Short Communication

A Short drug trial of Mastitis in Cattle

Ghulam Murtaza Arshad a, Muhammad Ali Shah b,c, Khawar Ali Shahzad d, Azhar Maqbool a, Athar Ali Khan a*

a University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore

b State Key Laboratory of Bioelectronics, School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering, Southeast University, 210096, Nanjing , China

c Department of Pathobiology, Arid Agriculture University, 54000, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

d University of Lahore, 54000, Lahore, Pakistan

Abstract

Mastitis is characterized as an inflammation of glandular tissue of the udder with physical, chemical and microbiological changes in the milk. An antibiotic susceptibility trial was conducted, of farmox (amoxycillin), floxatryl (norfloxacine), tyloject (tylosin), tribrissen (sulphadiazine-trimethoprim) and rasomycine (oxytetracycline) under field conditions in cattle naturally infected with mastitis. The isolated bacterial pathogens isolated from milk samples of affected cattle were susceptible in the ascending order to oxytetracycline, sulphadiazin-trimethoprim, norfloxacin amoxycllin and tylosin. The comparative drug efficacy against mastitis was 90% tyloject, 85% farmox, 35% rasomycin, 55% floxatryl and 75% tribrissen. The total economic loss due to mastitis at a village level was assessed as 8405 ($) rupees per annum per farmer.

Keywords: Mastitis, cattle, medicine, efficacy.

Received: Sep 24, 2013; Revised: Nov 3, 2013; Accepted: Nov 12, 2013

*Corresponding author: Muhammad Athar Ali Khan; Email: atharaliskhan@uvas.edu.pk