TABLE 2.
Mean scores of inflammatory lesions in organs of cows and fetuses or calves according to the genotype of cows experimentally infected with Brucella abortus
| Genotype (n) | Mean score of inflammatory lesions ina:
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| Plac | End | MG | Liver | Spleen | MLN | PLN | BLN | IILN | Lung | Liver | Spleen | BLN | |
| SSCAr (19) | 1.95 | 1.68 | 0.53 | 0.63 | 1.10 | 0.79 | 0.42 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.94 | 0.47 | 1.31 | 0.87 |
| SSCAs (23) | 1.91 | 1.81 | 0.78 | 0.43 | 0.74 | 0.48 | 0.61 | 0.43 | 0.52 | 0.73 | 0.78 | 1.23 | 0.95 |
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Scores: 0, absent; 1, mild; 2, moderate; and 3, severe. Abbreviations: Plac, placentome; End, endometrium; MG, mammary gland; MLN, mammary lymph node; PLN, prescapular lymph node; BLN, bronchial lymph node; IILN, internal iliac lymph node. No significant difference was detected by the nonparametric Mann-Whitney test (P > 0.05).