Volume: 48 Issue: 2
Year: 2017, Page: 16-19,
Received: Dec. 9, 2016 Accepted: Dec. 16, 2016 Published: Dec. 31, 2017
Corneal swabs were brought to the Department of Veterinary Microbiology from Teaching Veterinary Clinical Complex, College of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Mannuthy for cultural isolation and identification. By biochemical characterization, the most predominant organism was identified as Staphylococcus aureus. The isolate was subjected to molecular confirmation by Polymerase Chain Reaction.
Keywords: Corneal swabs, Staphylococcus aureus, PCR
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