Vol. 8, Issue 6 (2019)

Author(s):
Subramanian B, Rajkumar K, Vijayalakshmi P, Abiramy @ Prabavathy. A, Selvi D and Subhash Chandra B

Abstract:
A 1.5 year old Great dane bitch was brought to Department of Veterinary Medicine, TVCC, RIVER with a history of whelped a single puppy 50 days back and enlargement of left cranial abdominal, left and right caudal abdominal mammary glands with watery milk for past 3days. Bacteriological culture revealed Acinetobacter species. It was found sensitive to imipenem, doxycycline, ciprofloxacin, cefotaxime, amoxicillin, amoxicillin clavulanic acid, cefpodoxime, gentamicin, cefixime and ceftriaxone. The dog was treated with cefotaxime @ 30mg/kg body weight for 5 days b.i.d. Swelling of mammary gland reduced and animal recovered after 5 days of treatment.