Vol. 10, Special Issue 11 (2021)

Author(s):
Deeksha and Sonia Sindhu

Abstract:
The study was carried out at the animal farms of the ICAR- Central Institute of Research on Buffaloes (ICAR-CIRB), Hisar across two breeds during winter season to compare the efficacy of infrared thermography with different diagnostic techniques for early detection of mastitis. The two organized herds included the Murrah breed animals (n=104) at the main campus located at Hisar, Haryana and the Nilli-Ravi herd (n=100) at ICAR-CIRB sub campus located at Nabha, Punjab. CMT was used as initial classifier for animal as normal/non-mastitis, subclinical/clinical mastitis. Milk samples from thirty-eight mastitis cases were examined for the isolation and identification of bacterial agents. Among bacterial agents isolated from thirty-eight mastitis cases, prevalence of Coagulase-negative Staphylococci was 65.79%, mixed infection was 21.05%, S. aureus and Escherichia coli was 5.26% each and Streptococcus spp. was 2.63%. Prevalence of subclinical mastitis in herd of CIRB was 10.29% and Clinical mastitis was 8.33%.