Studies on strepococoi in equines

Summary:-1. 548 swabs were co1lect,ed from the natural orifices andabscesses of apparently healthy and affected borses anddonkeys and bealthy mules where 357 samples from borses 130 from donkeys and 61 from mules.Bacteriological examination r€vealed tbe isolatian of 291 lsolates of streptococci in a recovery rate of 55.1% f r om which 174 (59.79%) isolates of a1pha- haemolytthe recovery of 19 beta haemolytic streptococci, while from horses developinc :abscesses the number of beta- baemolytic from the nacural orifices was 13 beta- baemOlytic streptococci? and 23 beta-haemolytic stre- ptococci from abscess2s. Most of the isola