Juniper Publishers Journal of Dairy and Veterinary Sciences

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Introduction Mastitis caused by Coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CNS) usually remains subclinical or mildly clinical [1], however it was reported that CNS mastitis could be aggravated to severe clinical cases [2], but most CNS mastitis cases are chronic [3] based on their intramammary persistence for lactation milk exceeding periods, even extended to the upcoming ones [4]. CNS mastitis is a hidden but serious threat to dairy herd including further horizontal transmission to lactating cows and vertical to suckling calves because of environmental origin of most CNS and hidden subclinical nature [5]. CNS mastitis hazards aren’t exclusive to the dairy herds, but also extended to public health due to possible horizontal transmission of resistance genes (Soares et al., 2012) to other human pathogens or direct transmission to humans because of shared zoonotic virulent CNS species between animal and humans [6]. Pathogenicit...

  Journal of Dairy & Veterinary Sciences - Juniper Publishers Abstract This review was provoked with the purpose of examine and comprehend dairy cattle performance, constraints and prospects of Ethiopian dairy production. Ethiopia holds tenth largest cattle population in the world which contributes 45% of the country GDP and almost all rural population of the country are based on livestock as a major source of income. From livestock production dairying is very crucial for farmers income and their major milk sources are cattle, camel and goats. In communal sense the country has mainly three types of dairy production system Rural, Urban and peri-urban. In urban and peri-urban system farmers insist and employed in dairy production as a main business and they contribute only 2% of total country milk production. Whereas the rural system practices subsistence mixed crop-livestock type of production system and they contribute 98 % of total country milk production. The country has dive...