1Government Veterinary Hospital, Dhab Dhani, Haryana, India
2Department of Veterinary Gynaecology and Obstetrics, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, 333001, Rajasthan
3Department of Veterinary Parasitology, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, 333001, Rajasthan
4Government Veterinary Hospital, Gothtra, Rajasthan, India
Apex Centre for Animal Disease Investigation, Monitoring and Surveillance, College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Bikaner, 333001, India
*Email: drvkskhichar09@gmail.com
Online published on 4 February, 2017.
Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen associated with several clinical infections in humans and animals. The present study was carried out to evaluate S. aureus for their 2 major capsular polysaccharide genes namely cap5k and cap8k. Twenty isolates of S. aureus were obtained from skin wounds of camels in Bikaner, Rajasthan which were first identified by conventional cultural and biochemical properties and then confirmed by ribotyping based on 23S rRNA gene segment. All the isolates were processed to detect presence of cap5k and cap8k gene by PCR. The results demonstrated that 18 (90%) isolates were typable of which 55% S. aureus isolates possessed cap5k and 35% possessed cap8k whereas 10% isolates were not typable for any of these 2 genes.
Camel, capsular polysaccharide, cap5k and cap8k genes, Staphylococcus aureus
