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Revision as of 11:01, 25 June 2010

Bovine mastitis

  • S. aureus is a common cause of mastitis in cattle worldwide
  • Most infections subclinical
  • Systemic infection can occur with peracute and gangrenous forms
  • In gangrenous mastitis, the quarter may become necrotic and slough off; alpha toxin causes necrosis of smooth muscle in blood vessel walls, reducing blood flow to the affected quarter, and causes release of lysomal enzymes from leukocytes

Tick pyaemia

  • Infection of lambs with S. aureus in hill-grazing areas of the UK
  • Lambs carry S. aureus on their skin and nasal mucosa; infection via skin trauma including tick bites
  • Ixodes ricinus tick acts as a vector for Ehrlichia phagocytophila, which causes immunosuppression in lambs, predisposing to staphylococcal infection
  • Acute septicaemia and death or localised abscess formation in many organs
  • Arthritis, posterior paresis and ill-thrift
  • Microscopic identification of bacteria in pus and isolation of S. aureus
  • Prophylactic antibiotics e.g. tetracyclines initiated at 1 week of age may prevent infection
  • Tick control important

Botryomycosis

  • Chronic, suppurative granulomatous condition
  • S. aureus
  • Occurs following castration of horses due to infection of stump of spermatic cors
  • Occurs in mammary tissues of sows
  • Mass of fibrous tissue containing pus and sinus tracts

Other infections caused by S. aureus