Table 4.
Pearson correlation coefficient between antimicrobial resistance or 16S-rRNA genes in fecal deposits from cattle fed subtherapeutic levels of tylosin (T11)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) | 0.02 | 0.24 | -0.08 | -0.24 | 0.64* | 0.62* | 0.57* | 0.10 | 0.09 | -0.25 | -0.12 | 0.68* |
| tet(C) | -0.29 | 0.61* | -0.01 | 0.46* | 0.64* | 0.37* | 0.18 | 0.34 | 0.02 | 0.14 | 0.42* | |
| tet(L) | -0.02 | 0.25 | 0.09 | -0.08 | 0.19 | 0.30 | 0.31 | 0.31 | 0.30 | 0.01 | ||
| tet(M) | 0.67 | 0.14 | 0.43* | 0.47* | 0.79* | 0.72* | 0.69* | 0.81* | 0.32 | |||
| tet(W) | -0.43* | -0.15 | 0.05 | 0.80* | 0.47* | 0.92* | 0.91* | -0.19 | ||||
| sul1 | 0.80* | 0.69* | -0.04 | 0.27 | -0.39* | -0.19 | 0.82* | |||||
| sul2 | 0.84* | 0.28 | 0.46* | -0.09 | 0.07 | 0.88* | ||||||
| erm(A) | 0.44* | 0.61* | 0.12 | 0.30 | 0.85* | |||||||
| erm(B) | 0.73* | 0.85* | 0.89* | 0.24 | ||||||||
| erm(F) | 0.65* | 0.72* | 0.48* | |||||||||
| erm(T) | 0.94* | -0.13 | ||||||||||
| erm(X) | 0.03 |
a. Analysis was performed across time points, described in the Materials and Methods. Values were log-transformed before correlations analysis. *, P ≤ 0.05.