Table 3.
Pearson correlation coefficient between antimicrobial resistance or 16S-rRNA genes in fecal deposits from cattle fed subtherapeutic levels of a mixture of chlortetracycline and sulfamethazine (AS700)a.
| tet(C) | tet(L) | tet(M) | tet(W) | sul1 | sul2 | erm(A) | erm(B) | erm(F) | erm(T) | erm(X) | 16S-rRNA | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tet(B) | 0.23 | -0.05 | 0.16 | -0.23 | 0.40* | 0.46* | 0.18 | -0.08 | 0.01 | 0.30 | -0.07 | 0.18 |
| tet(C) | -0.31 | 0.38* | 0.24 | 0.55* | 0.65* | 0.77* | 0.49* | 0.40* | 0.09 | 0.69* | 0.63* | |
| tet(L) | 0.42* | 0.20 | -0.26 | -0.28 | -0.19 | 0.41* | 0.34 | 0.46* | -0.18 | 0.05 | ||
| tet(M) | 0.68* | 0.08 | 0.23 | 0.45* | 0.67* | 0.87* | 0.73* | 0.36* | 0.70* | |||
| tet(W) | -0.48* | -0.29 | 0.02 | 0.36* | 0.73* | 0.47* | 0.07 | 0.35* | ||||
| sul1 | 0.95* | 0.80* | 0.34 | -0.04 | -0.03 | 0.66* | 0.46* | |||||
| sul2 | 0.86* | 0.42* | 0.09 | 0.08 | 0.69* | 0.58* | ||||||
| erm(A) | 0.68* | 0.34* | 0.17 | 0.87* | 0.70* | |||||||
| erm(B) | 0.58* | 0.46* | 0.67* | 0.58* | ||||||||
| erm(F) | 0.77* | 0.34 | 0.72* | |||||||||
| erm(T) | 0.15 | 0.52* | ||||||||||
| erm(X) | 0.60* |
a. Analysis was performed across time points, described in the Materials and Methods. Values were log-transformed before correlations analysis. *, P ≤ 0.05.