Professional paper

Somatic cells in goat milk

Neven Antunac orcid.org/0000-0003-1084-5966 ; Agronomski fakultet, Svetošimunska 25, 10000 Zagreb
Jasmina Havranek
Dubravka Samaržija orcid.org/0000-0001-5577-4992

Abstract

Somatic cell counts in milk of uninfected goats is much higher then in milk of uninfected cows. Considering literature, number should be higher than 1x106/ml. Breed, herd, stage and number of lactation, season are found to affect higher cell numbers. But, major reason for that is apocrine type of milk secretion, that results in a high number of round cytoplasmic particles and epithelial cells in milk. Due to, methods routinely used for estimating SSC and the treshold value (400000 cells/ml), could not be applied accurately to goat milk. Therefore, only counting methods specific for DNA should be employed for estimating SCC in goat milk. Increase of SCC in goat milk upper fiziological level is also influenced by pathogenic organisms. Diagnosis of subclinical goat mastitis should be based primarily on isolation of organisms from milk.

Keywords

somatic cells; mastitis; determination methods

Hrčak ID:

94907

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/94907

Publication date:

12.5.1997.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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