Table 2.

Comparison of mean (% abundance) at different levels in healthy (H), subclinical mastitis (SCM) and clinical mastitis (CM) groups of Nili Ravi buffalo milk. Only significantly different taxa are denoted with letters.

Taxa	Healthy(H)			Subclinical Mastitis (SCM)			Clinical Mastitis (CM)
Phylum	Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM
Actinobacteria	11.14	0.94	ns	13.55	4.49	ns	7.70	2.88	ns
Bacteroidetes	5.65	2.37	ns	6.91	2.25	ns	5.32	2.25	ns
Cyanobacteria	0.38	0.23	ns	0.56	0.23	ns	0.16	0.16	ns
Firmicutes	28.65	8.28	ns	49.12	11.12	ns	58.20	13.02	ns
Planctomycetes	0.00	0.00	ns	0.31	0.18	ns	0.11	0.09	ns
Proteobacteria	52.58	8.74	ns	27.69	10.06	ns	26.05	8.88	ns
Family	Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM
Bacillaceae	4.22	1.47	ns	15.74	15.23	ns	0.87	0.31	ns
Corynebacteriaceae	1.91	0.39	ns	6.20	3.89	ns	2.42	1.38	ns
Lactobacillaceae	1.08	0.52	ns	1.88	1.48	ns	0.84	0.61	ns
Moraxellaceae	4.28	0.76	a	3.86	0.80	b	0.98	0.43	a
Oxalobacteraceae	9.90	2.43	a	2.49	0.44	b	2.50	0.93	b
Staphylococcaceae	4.52	1.03	ns	7.52	4.80	ns	8.21	4.30	ns
Streptococcaceae	11.11	7.74	ns	3.95	1.81	ns	33.19	18.82	ns
Genus	Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM		Mean	SEM
Acinetobacter	3.40	0.49	a	2.61	0.78	b	0.79	0.42	ab
Bacillus	1.71	0.88	ns	15.77	15.39	ns	0.38	0.38	ns
Corynebacterium	2.09	0.40	ns	6.70	4.21	ns	2.68	1.51	ns
Herbaspirillum	7.65	3.73	ns	2.06	0.69	ns	0.61	0.38	ns
Lactobacillus	1.16	0.60	ns	2.13	1.70	ns	0.91	0.66	ns
Pseudomonas	1.27	0.71	ns	0.62	0.50	ns	1.40	0.91	ns
Staphylococcus	4.71	1.04	ns	6.58	4.20	ns	7.87	4.60	ns
Streptococcus	11.60	8.02	ns	4.29	1.90	ns	33.96	18.78	ns

Different letters (a,b) in the same rows denotes differences between means for p-value < 0.05. ns = non-significant.