Clinical Study on Camel Mastitis (Camelus dromedarius) at Butana Region, Sudan

Abstract

This study was conducted for detailed investigation of mastitis in she-camels reared in the Butana region in the middle of the North-eastern Sudan. Three hundred and nineteen milking camels during both hot and cold seasons were examined.The study included determination of percentage of clinical mastitis according to season, age, stage of lactation and number of calving as well as detection of susceptibility of isolated microorganism to the antimicrobial drugs. This study showed that the overall percentage of clinical mastitis was 9.09%. Three forms of clinical mastitis were diagnosed. There was chronic form with high occurrence (72.41%) followed by acute form (24.14%) and the least was the gangrenous form (3.45%). The highest occurrence of clinical mastitis was found at the ages between 11-15 years and in late stage of lactation (55%). The highest incidence of clinical mastitis was found at the first, second and third calving (65.52%).Thepredominant isolated organism was Staphylococcus spp. (37.8%) followed by E.coli (18.9%), Streptococcus spp. (13.5%), Bacillus spp. (10.8%), Micrococcus spp. (8.1%), Corynebacterium spp. (5.4%) and Salmonella spp. (5.4%).The antimicrobial susceptibility test of the isolated bacteria generally showed high susceptibility to the most of the used antimicrobial agents.