Table 3.
Occurrence of bacterial and mycoplasmal pathogens in different clinical respiratory disease categories
| Pathogen | Respiratory disease category (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy (n = 144) | Suspect (n = 89) | Diseased (n = 163) | |
| No bacterial pathogens or mycoplasmas | 17 | 25 | 16 |
| No bacterial pathogens | 63 | 58 | 42a |
| No mycoplasmas | 25 | 37 | 24 |
| P. multocida | 26.4 | 32.6 | 42.3b |
| M. varigena | 0.7 | 2.2 | 3.1 |
| M. haemolytica | 1.4 | 0 | 3.1 |
| S. suis | 5.6 | 2.2 | 7.4 |
| A. pyogenes | 8.3 | 6.7 | 8.0 |
| Fusobacterium | 6.9 | 3.4 | 12.9b |
| B. bronchiseptica | 0 | 0 | 0.6 |
| H. somni | 0 | 1.1 | 0.6 |
| U. diversum | 18.1 | 16.9 | 30.7b |
| M. bovirhinis | 43.8 | 40.4 | 49.7 |
| M. dispar | 40.3 | 30.3 | 45.4 |
a
Significantly more prevalent in healthy and suspect categories than in the diseased category (p < 0.05).
b
Significantly more prevalent in diseased than in healthy and suspect (p < 0.05).