A note on investigation of neonatal pup mortality

摘要

Milk, blood and vaginal swabs from the bitches with history of neonatal mortality of pups and heart blood, lung and liver samples from the dead pups were subjected to bacterial isolation and antibiogram studies. Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus intermedius, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Proteus vulgaris, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Hafnia alvei and Escherichia coli were isolated from different samples. Majority of the isolates were sensitive to ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, amoxycillin, chloramphenicol andgentamicin.