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Published on: May 27, 2022
Diversity of yeasts from bovine mastitis in Southern Brazil
Andréia Spanamberg1, Elsio Augusto Wünder, Daniela Isabel Brayer Pereira
1Setor de Micologia Veterinária, Departamento de Patologia Clínica Veterinária, Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre RS, Brazil. andreiaspanamberg@yahoo.com.br
Abstract:
Mastitis is one of the most serious problems in the dairy cattle farms. The great majority of the cases are caused by bacteria, but lately there have been an increasing number of reports about cases of mycotic etiology. The objective of this work was to characterize the yeasts and yeast-like fungi associated with milk of cows with mastitis. Milk samples (n = 248) from a dairy belt situated around the region of Passo Fundo, hinterland of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Southern Brazil, were analyzed. Aliquots of 0.1 ml of milk were inoculated on yeast extract-malta agar with chloramphenicol. After a period of incubation of 3-5 days at 22-25 degrees C, the counting of the morphologically distinct colonies was performed, as well as the isolation and identification through phenotypical and physiological criteria. It was possible to isolate 68 yeast species from 43 (17.3%) of the samples. The most frequent genera were Candida (37.9%), Pichia (19.1%), Cryptococcus (10.3%) and Rhodotorula (10.3%).
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