Table 1.
Bacterial genera identified in diseased and clinically healthy cat conjunctiva.
| Healthy cats | Cats with conjunctivitis | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Actinomyces spp. | ∗ | |||||
| Bacillus spp. | ∗ | |||||
| Bacillus subtilis | ∗ | |||||
| Corynebacterium spp. | ∗∗ | |||||
| Lactobacillus spp. | ∗∗ | |||||
| Lactobacillus salivarius | ∗∗ | |||||
| Staphylococcus spp. | ∗ | ∗ | ||||
| Staphylococcus capitis | ∗ | |||||
| Staphylococcus caprae | ∗ | |||||
| Staphylococcus pasteuri | ∗ | |||||
| Staphylococcus succinus | ∗ | ∗∗ | ||||
| Staphylococcus warneri | ∗ | |||||
| Streptococcus infantarius | ∗ | |||||
| Streptococcus lutetiensis | ∗ | |||||
| Propionibacterium spp. | ∗ | ∗∗ | ||||
| Propionibacterium acnes | ∗ | ∗∗ | ||||
| Psychrobacter spp. | ∗ | |||||
| Psychrobacter faecalis | ∗ | |||||
| Psychrobacter pulmonis | ∗∗ | |||||
| Uncultured bacterium | ∗ | ∗ | ∗∗ | |||
∗>99% identity to sequences from GenBank; ∗∗an identity between 97 and 99% to sequences from GenBank.