Table 5.

Median of samples for each of the five pathogens in each score of pleurisy, of the lung and pleura samples. Medians followed by equal letters indicate that values do not differ from each other by using Dunn’s test at a significance level of p < 0.05.

	Lung Samples			Pleura Samples
	Score of Pleurisy	Median *	Median Standard Error	Score of Pleurisy	Median *	Median Standard Error
M. hyopneumoniae	0	3.30 × 10−1 b	8.77 × 10−1	0	4.73 × 10−1 a	1.25 × 100
	1	9.71 × 102 ab	2.46 × 101	1	6.40 × 10−2 a	1.62 × 10−1
	2	6.75 × 103 b	1.72 × 102	2	3.06 × 102 a	8.47 × 10−2
	3	2.11 × 103 ab	5.34 × 102	3	4.36 × 101 a	1.10 × 100
	4	1.13 × 104 a	9.35 × 102	4	6.48 × 101 a	1.72 × 100
P. multocida	0	4.64 × 103 b	1.23 × 10−2	0	0.00 × 100 b	0.00 × 100
	1	4.91 × 103 b	1.31 × 10−2	1	0.00 × 100 b	0.00 × 100
	2	7.4 × 100 ab	1.84 × 101	2	0.00 × 100 b	0.00 × 100
	3	1.3 × 102 ab	9.30 × 10−2	3	5.17 × 103 ab	1.31 × 10−2
	4	8.37 × 101 a	2.22 × 100	4	7.68 × 101 a	2.04 × 100
A. pleuropneumoniae	0	6.84 × 102 bc	1.81 × 10−1	0	6.83 × 100 a	6.88 × 10−2
	1	7.42 × 103 bc	1.88 × 10−2	1	6.24 × 100 a	1.16 × 10−2
	2	1.20 × 104 a	4.68 × 100	2	6.68 × 100 a	7.47 × 10−1
	3	2.06 × 102 ab	5.22 × 102	3	7.43 × 100 a	4.25 × 10−1
	4	6.43 × 103 c	1.71 × 10−2	4	6.60 × 100 a	1.93 × 10−1
G. parasuis	0	1.15 × 101 a	3.06 × 10−1	0	1.76 × 101 a	4.68 × 10−1
	1	2.70 × 101 a	6.84 × 10−1	1	2.23 × 101 a	5.63 × 10−1
	2	4.66 × 102 a	1.18 × 10−1	2	2.57 × 101 a	7.11 × 10−1
	3	4.65 × 101 a	1.18 × 100	3	1.53 × 100 a	3.87 × 100
	4	4.20 × 101 a	1.11 × 101	4	1.66 × 101 a	4.40 × 10−1
S. suis	0	9.44 × 10−2 a	2.50 × 10−1	0	1.65 × 10−1 a	4.39 × 10−1
	1	5.80 × 10−2 a	1.47 × 10−1	1	1.03 × 10−1 a	2.61 × 10−1
	2	4.21 × 10−2 a	1.09 × 10−1	2	2.20 × 10−1 a	6.10 × 10−1
	3	1.86 × 100 a	4.71 × 100	3	9.94 × 10−2 a	2.51 × 10−1
	4	8.03 × 10−2 a	2.13 × 10−1	4	1.40 × 10−1 a	3.70 × 10−1

* Equal letters indicate no significant differences by the non-parametric Dunn’s test (p > 0.05).