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Prevalence of bacteria in the conjunctival sac and on the eyelid margin of clinically normal cats
Author(s) -
Espínolaz M. B.,
Lilenbaum W.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of small animal practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1748-5827
pISSN - 0022-4510
DOI - 10.1111/j.1748-5827.1996.tb02415.x
Subject(s) - medicine , eyelid , cats , margin (machine learning) , dermatology , surgery , machine learning , computer science
Samples from the palpebral conjunctiva, third eyelid and eyelid margin from 50 asymptomatic cats were analysed. Sixty‐seven per cent of the samples showed bacterial growth with a high predominance of the genus Staphylococcus (97‐8 per cent) predominantly coagulase‐negative (93‐5 per cent). The most frequent species was S epi‐dermidis (45‐7 per cent), followed by S simulans (23‐9 per cent), S auricularis [17A per cent) and S saprophyticus (6‐5 per cent). Three samples of S aureus (6‐5 per cent) and one of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2‐1 per cent) were also identified. The role of these microorganisms in the eyes of cats is discussed and the importance of the new species Staphylococcus felis is stressed.