A total of 162 faecal samples was collected from individual cattle on ten farms from three states of Nigeria. These samples yielded 333 clostridial isolates out of which 295 (88.6%) were identified; the remaining 38 (11.4%) could not be readily identified at species level. The species most frequently isolated was Clostridium perfringens representing 63.7% of the isolates and the next highest was Cl. bifermentans with a frequency of 12.6%. The other species identified were less frequently isolated. No farm yielded all the species isolated. The farm with the highest distribution of the species of Clostridium was the Livestock Investigation Centre, Vom, Plateau State, with a frequency distribution of 62% of the species isolated. In none of the other farms was the distribution up to 50% frequency.
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