Table 2.

Bacterial isolated from milk samples at 14 days before drying off and 5–14 days after calving

Bacterial species	Number of cases (%)
	Before drying off	After calving
Corynebacterium spp.	37 (33.33)	28 (51.85)
Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS)	46 (41.44)	10 (18.52)
Other environmental streptococci	10 (9.01)	1 (1.85)
Streptococcus dysgalactiae	6 (5.41)	4 (7.41)
Streptococcus bovis	3 (2.70)	1 (1.85)
Staphylococcus aureus	3 (2.70)	-
Bacillus spp.	1 (0.90)	4 (7.41)
Yeast	-	5 (9.26)
Streptococcus uberis	3 (2.70)	1 (1.85)
Streptococcus agalactiae	1 (0.90)	-
Salmonella spp.	1 (0.90)	-
Total	111 (100)	54 (100)