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Bacterial infertility and ascending uterine infections with respect to
pneumovagina and urovagina in cows |
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1*Goncagul,
G., 2Seyrek-Intas, K., 3Kumru, I.H., 4Ozakin,
C., 2Ozdemir, Salci, E.S., 5Weiss, R. and 5Prenger-Berninghoff,
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1Mennan
Pasinli Vocational High School, Uludag University, Bursa-Turkey; 2Department
of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Uludag
University, Bursa-Turkey; 3Customs
offices of Ministry of
Agriculture Kapıkule, Edirne-Turkey; 4Department of
Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Uludag University, Bursa-Turkey;
5Institut für Hygiene und Infektionskrankheiten der Tiere der
Justus-Liebig-Universität
Giessen-Germany |
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Abstract |
Ascending bacterial infections of the reproductive tracts are considered
the most important causes of infertility in the cows. The aim of this
study was to determine the types of bacteria causing endometritis in
cows with pneumo-/urovagina and to compare them with bacterial flora of
the cows with endometritis resulted from other reasons. The study was
planned under two groups (Group 1: samples from cows with pneumo-/urovagina
in the southern region of Marmara in
Turkey. Group 2 (control): samples from
cows with infertility due to other reasons in the Hessen region of
Germany. In group 1, 101
dairy cows with pneumo-/urovagina revealed that 8 were negative on
bacterial culture (7.9 %) in 101 uterine swabs. Bacteria was detected in
the other samples (92.1%) including 41.8%
Escherichia coli, 14.4%
Streptococcus
bovis I,
14.4% Streptococcus
bovis II, 5.9%
Streptococcus equines and
3.9% Bacillus licheniformis.
The remaining 19.6% were 18 different bacterial isolates. In Group 2,
the samples obtained from 142 cows were cultured, of which 140 samples
(98.5%) were positive bacteriologically. Out of 22.1% was
Escherichia coli, 15.3%
a-haemolytica
Streptococci,
14.3%
g‑Streptococcus,
12.1% Truperella pyogenes,
4.2% Streptococcus uberis,
3.6% Staphylococcus aureus,
0.7% Staphylococcus heamolyticus
and
b-Streptococcus
each, and the remaining 27% were 16 different bacterial isolates. As a
conclusion, depending on the group, despite differences between
endometrial swabs isolated from cows with infertility problems,
Escherichia coli was the most
dominant agent. The samples in Group 2 might explain why the ratio of
Escherichia coli isolates was
lower in Germany.
This could be valuable data for diagnosis and treatment of the cows
having clinical signs of pneumo-/urovagina.
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Keywords:
Cow; infertility; pneumovagina; urovagina; endometritis
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To cite this article:
Goncagul G, KS Intas, IH Kumru, C Ozakin, E.S. Ozdemir Salci, R Weiss,
EP Berninghoff and G Baljer,
2012.
Bacterial infertility and ascending uterine infections with respect to
pneumovagina and urovagina in cows.
Res.
Opin. Anim. Vet. Sci., 2(12), 583-586. |
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