Antimicrobial activity of whey mare’s milk against Salmonella enteritidis

Abstract

Mare's milk has good nutritional value with a balanced protein, fat and lactose content and therapeutic food sources because of high lactoferrin content in whey protein. Lactoferrin, lysozyme, immunoglobulins are important compounds contained in milk whey protein. As previous, Salmonella Enteritidis infection as a major cause of salmonellosis, globally. The test was conducted at the Veterinary Public Health Laboratory of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Nusa Cendana University. Pathogenic bacteria was used Salmonella Enteritidis ATCC® 13076 ™, obtained from the Veterinary Public Health Section, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Bogor Agricultural University. The results show that Lactoferrin has antimicrobial activity against pathogenic bacteria of Salmonella Enteritidis. Results of this research may be basic research to the development of lactoferrin from Sumba mare’s milk as an antimicrobial agent potential in treating Salmonellosis.