Isolation of Some Bacterial and Mycotic Infection from Eyes of Dogs in Baghdad

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to detect the fungal and bacterialpathogens that infected eyes dogs as pathogenic and non-pathogenic and chance associated with Canine Distemper Virus (CDV). Thirty eyes infected dogs and tenhealthy dogs were came to the Baghdad veterinary hospital, through the period from the March 2016 to the April 2017, the eyes infected dogsappeared signs severe eyes inflammation, lacrimation, eye redness, anorexia, respiratory signs and pus in eyes, followed by clinical examination to the affected dogs, culturing of swabs for estimated the bacterial and fungal pathogens and laboratory diagnosis of suspected dogs on CDV, the results exposed significant increase (P<0.05) in the bacterial sporadic causative agent (53.34%) compare to other types of causative agents, significant increase (P<0.05) in the Staphylococcus spp. (32.14%) and Escherichia coli (17.8%) compared with other types of pathogens isolates, the rate of eyes infection was significantly higher (P<0.05) in March and April, the rate of eyes infection was significantly higher (P<0.05) was in Terrier and German shepherd, ); the eyes infection rate wasincreased significantly in males dogs compared to the females dogs and non-effect of age on the infection rate.