Examination of bovine faeces for the isolation and identification of Clostridium species

摘要

A total of 162 faecal samples was collected from individual cattle on ten farms from three states of Nigeria. These samples yielded 333 clostridial isolates out of which 295 (88.6) were identified; the remaining 38 (11.4) could not be readily identified at species level. The species most frequently isolated wasClostridium perfringensrepresenting 63.7 of the isolates and the next highest wasCl. bifermentanswith a frequency of 12.6. The other species identified were less frequently isolated. No farm yielded all the species isolated. The farm with the highest distribution of the species ofClostridiumwas the Livestock Investigation Centre, Vom, Plateau State, with a frequency distribution of 62 of the species isolated. In none of the other farms was the distribution up to 50 frequency.