Table 2.
Udder half bacteriology results aggregated to a goat-level category with the intramammary infection status (IMI-status) in 3242 samples obtained from 451 goats on four farms (A-D) in 2021 and 2022
| Farm | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | D | Total | |
| IMI-status | Number of samples (number of goats) | ||||
| Negative | 466 (99) | 390 (115) | 715 (126) | 386 (80) | 1957 (391) |
| S. aureus a | 71 (29) | 133 (58) | 5 (5) | 15 (7) | 224 (99) |
| S. epidermidis a | 111 (41) | 17 (11) | 16 (5) | 0 (0) | 144 (57) |
| S. caprae a | 22 (8) | 119 (53) | 130 (47) | 11 (7) | 282 (112) |
| S. warneri a | 65 (33) | 35 (25) | 49 (37) | 73 (33) | 222 (125) |
| Otherb | 93 (54) | 80 (46) | 101 (51) | 44 (23) | 318 (169) |
| Contamination | 17 (16) | 49 (39) | 29 (27) | 1 (1) | 95 (81) |
a Staphylocuccus is abbreviated S.
bOther: This category includes mixed NASM infections, as well as other bacteria identified (n = number of udder halves with this bacterial finding): Other non-aureus staphylococci and mammaliicocci (n = 103), Pseudomonas sp (n = 29) Trueperella pyogenes (n = 1), Streptococcus uberis (n = 1), alpha streptococci (n = 8))