Somatic cell count in dairy goats II: udder health monitoring at goat and herd level

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 2 Somatic cell count (× 1000 cells/mL) and period prevalence according to goat level bacteriological status in 767 goats from nine Norwegian dairy goat herds sampled up to five times during one lactation

	Somatic cell count
Bacterial status	Median	Interquartile range	n observations	n goats	Prevalence (%)^a
Staphylococcus aureus	2090	928—4488	210	108		14
Staphylococcus caprae	440	196—1059	285	132		17
Staphylococcus epidermidis	455	250—900	324	128		17
Staphylococcus warneri	590	250—1070	185	111		14
Negative	210	80—649	2504	641		84

^aPeriod prevalence, calculated as the proportion of goats with the bacterial status in at least one sampling event during the study period

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