Table I.

Culture results of 467 milk samples with high somatic cell counts (SCC)^a

		Samples with
Growth/Bacterium	Number	%	High SCC	%
No growth	178	38.1	70	39.3
Contaminated with Bacillus	117	25.1	55	47.0
Major pathogen	10	2.1	2	20.0
Minor pathogen	36	7.7	15	41.6
Mixed	94	20.1	54	57.4
CNS < 10 colonies	20	4.3	13	65.0
Other	12	2.5	7	58.3

CNS — Coagulase-negative staphylococci

^aSCC/mL = > 1 × 10⁶ for the sample