CMT e cultivo bacteriano como indicativo da saúde da glândula mamária em cabras da raça Moxotó - dados preliminares.

Abstract

Matitis is the disease that causes more damages in the milk produstion, and it is caused mainly by infeccious agents and traumas. About the public health it be detached by the relation between the patogenic agents and their toxins and the anthibiotic residues. In the clinical form is possible to verify alteration in the mammary glandula and for in the milk. In the sub-clinical form it causes important economical damages by the decrease in the milk production without any clinical signs of inflamatory process. It was used five moxoto goats in the third day of lactation and take milk once a time in a week during thirty days. The animals were examinated by the " California mastitis test" (CMT) and milk samples were submitted to microbiological tests. After the analysis of the milk samples of the five females it was verified that no animal was positive to CMT and there were not bacterium in the milk. It can be concluded that the CMT agrees with the microbiological tests.