Observations regarding bacteriological and mycological microflora in various cat and dog infections

Abstract

The aim of this study was the isolation and identification of bacteriological and mycological microflora from various dog and cat secretions and excretions in the Medical and Surgical Clinics of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, during October 2005 – April 2006. The analyses were conducted at the University Center of the Microbiology – Immunology Medical Research Laboratory from Iaşi. A number of 17 samples from the pathological material made of 13 dogs and four cats were carried out. After the microbiological examination, 27 bacteria stems and six mycological stems were isolated and identified. From the 27 bacteria stems, nine (33.33%) of them were Escherichia coli, five (18.51%), Staphylococcus spp., five (18.51%), Arcanobacter pyogenes, three (11.11%), Clostridium perfringens, three (11.11%), Streptococcus spp., one (3.70%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and one (3.70%), Proteus spp. From the six isolated mycetes stems, three (50%) of them were represented by Candida spp., two (33.33%) by Malassezia spp. and one (16.66%) by Cryosporium spp. For all the isolated species, pathogenity tests and antibiograma were carried out. The association of more bacteriological and/or mycotical species was frequent, being observed in five of the 17 analysed samples (four in dogs and one in cats).