Xiao-Shi Cai, Hao Jiang, Jie Xiao, Xiangmin Yan, Penggui Xie, Wenjie Yu, Wen-Fa Lv, Jun Wang, Xiangyu Meng, Cheng-Zhen Chen, Mingjun Zhang, Yang Zhang, Bao Yuan, Jia-Bao Zhang
It is important to study the bacteria that cause endometritis to identify effective therapeutic drugs for dairy cows. In this study, 20% oxytetracycline was used to treat Holstein cows (n = 6) with severe endometritis. Additional 10 Holstein cows (5 for healthy cows, 5 for cows with mild endometritis) were also selected. At the same time, changes in bacterial communities were monitored by high-throughput sequencing. The results show that Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus aureus and other common pathogenic bacteria could be detected by traditional methods in cows both with and without endometritis...
April 25, 2024: Scientific Reports