Abstract
A total of 298 milking goats of different races were studied in 10 hers in the Siate of Rio de Janeiro. According so California Mastitis Test (CMT) 179 (60%) goats were positive in one or two teats. For the bacteriological study 585 milk samples were taken, 290 positives and 295 negatives at CMT. From the total amount of samples, negative coagulase were isolated in staphylococci predominating the Species: S. epidermidis, S. caprae, S. simulans and S. xylosus.

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Copyright (c) 1992 Marcelo Viana de Castro, Maria Charlotte Elizabethe Hubinger Langenegger, Jerome Langenegger
