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. 2023 Jun 1;65:19. doi: 10.1186/s13028-023-00681-2

Table 2.

Distribution of bacterial culture results in bovine milk samples in Norway (n = 36,431) analysed years 2019–2020

Definition of cow-level diagnosis
Bacterial finding Definition 1a Definition 2b Definition 3c
n % n % n %
Negatived 7743 21.2 7743 21.3 7743 30.1
Major pathogens
 Staphylococcus aureus 8918 24.5 7750 21.3 5028 19.6
 Streptococcus dysgalactiae 4827 13.3 3618 9.9 2105 8.2
 Streptococcus uberis 3269 9.0 2365 6.5 1411 5.5
 Escherichia coli 1859 5.1 1493 4.1 936 3.6
 Trueperella pyogenes 758 2.1 503 1.4 346 1.4
 Streptococcus agalactiae 311 0.9 311 0.9 162 0.6
 Mixed majore 2244 6.2
Minor pathogens
 Staphylococcus epidermidis 3630 10.0 1790 4.9 1327 5.2
 Staphylococcus chromogenes 2180 6.0 1022 2.8 766 3.0
 Staphylococcus simulans 1697 4.7 704 1.9 508 2.0
 Staphylococcus haemolyticus 670 1.8 277 0.8 195 0.8
 Other non-aureus staphylococcif 5917 16.3 2647 7.3 2237 8.7
 Corynebacterium bovis 3418 9.4 903 2.5 901 3.5
 Mixed minorg 907 2.5
 Other bacteriah 974 2.7 870 3.4
 Contaminationi 2264 6.2 1180 3.2 1163 4.5
 Total 47,461 1305j 36,431 100 25,698 100

aDefinition 1: Each quarter sample diagnosis was included independent of the other quarter samples, meaning that cows with two different diagnoses at the same sampling occasion contributed to the frequency of both udder pathogens

bDefinition 2: Cows with at least one quarter with S. aureus, S. dysgalactiae, S. uberis, E. coli, T. pyogenes or S. agalactiae (“major” pathogens) were assigned this as cow-level diagnosis. Cows were given the cow-level diagnosis NAS, S. epidermidis, S. chromogenes, S. simulans, S. haemolyticus or C. bovis (“minor pathogens”) if they had no major udder pathogen at the same sampling event

cDefinition 3: Cow-level diagnoses in a subset with only one bacterial finding per sampling event

dNo growth in all sampled quarters

eCows with more than one major udder pathogen at the same sampling event

fNon-aureus staphylococci other than S. epidermidis, S. chromogenes, S. simulans, S. haemolyticus

gCows with more than one minor udder pathogens at the same sampling event

hBacteria other than presented in the table

iSamples with at least one quarter yielding more than two different colony types and no other udder pathogens in other quarters

jGiving on average 1.3 bacterial diagnoses per cow per sampling event