Title: Characterization of Coa Gene and Antimicrobial Profiles of Staphylococcus Aureus Isolated from Bovine Clinical and Subclinical mastitis
Abstract: B ovine mastitis is considered as a serious threat in dairy industry as it causes huge economic losses in dairy herds (Awale et al., 2012; Xue et al., 2014).Bovine mastitis may caused by either contagious or environmental causes.Contagious mastitis is caused by bacterial or mycotic pathogens.However, environmental mastitis is the result of injury, bruising, chilling, or rough and improper milking.Large number of pathogens has been isolated from cases of mastitis in dairy cows.Mastitis causing pathogens have been classified as major and minor pathogens (Firaol et al., 2013).Among the pathogen causing mastitis, S. aureus is one of the major pathogens of clinical and subclinical bovine mastitis (Fox et al.,