Table 2.
Percent abundance (mean) comparison of mean at Order taxonomic level in milk samples from Sahiwal cattle grouped as healthy, clinical mastitis and with subclinical mastitis. Only signifcantly different taxa are denoted with letters
| Healthy | Clinical Mastitis | Subclinical Mastitis | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Order | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | |||
| Rhizobiales | 19.82 | 11.48 | 0.17 | 0.05 | 4.86 | 2.20 | |||
| Caulobacteriales | 6.65 | 5.89 | 1.60 | 0.76 | 1.27 | 0.51 | |||
| Burkholderiales | 2.11 | 0.68 | 0.38 | 0.15 | 6.64 | 5.17 | |||
| Staphylococcales | 12.92 | 12.73 | 20.38 | 18.73 | 34.05 | 16.50 | |||
| Corynebacteriales | 6.06 | 2.82 | 0.55 | 0.52 | 1.41 | 1.10 | |||
| Enterobacteriales | 3.79 | 2.48 | 0.07 | 0.02 | 3.59 | 2.14 | |||
| Flavobacteriales | 0.12 | 0.05 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.52 | 0.38 | |||
| Fusobacteriales | 0.00 | b | 0.00 | 31.79 | a | 13.62 | 0.02 | b | 0.02 |
| Ignavibacteriales | 5.46 | 2.53 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | |||
| Parvibaculales | 15.19 | 6.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 8.30 | 8.29 | |||
| Pseudomonadales | 6.11 | 2.57 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 19.65 | 10.61 | |||
SEM standard error mean, Different letters(a,b) in the same rows denotes differences between means for p-value < 0.05