Table 5.
Prevalence of the most abundant bacterial taxa in fetal kidney from bovine abortion cases based on 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing.
| Most abundant taxa kidney | No. of abortion cases |
|---|---|
| Acinetobacter sp. | 11 |
| Aerococcus viridans | 10 |
| Facklamia sp. | 10 |
| Psychrobacter psychrophilus | 10 |
| Clostridium sordellii | 8 |
| Lactococcus lactis | 7 |
| Lysinibacillus sp. | 4 |
| Psychrobacter sp. | 4 |
| Streptococcus pluranimalium | 4 |
| Trueperella pyogenes | 4 |
| Acinetobacter lwoffii | 3 |
| Carnobacteriaceae sp. | 3 |
| Escherichia coli | 3 |
| Shigella sonnei | 3 |
| Aeromonas sobria | 2 |
| Bacillus licheniformis | 2 |
| Clostridium butyricum | 2 |
| Corynebacterium sp. | 2 |
| Fusobacterium necrophorum | 2 |
| Fusobacterium varium | 2 |
| Lactobacillus curvatus | 2 |
| Lactobacillus sakei | 2 |
| Lactococcus sp. | 2 |
| Listeria monocytogenes | 2 |
| Proteus vulgaris | 2 |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 2 |
| Staphylococcus sciuri | 2 |
| Streptococcus equinus | 2 |
| Streptococcus parauberis | 2 |
| Acinetobacter baumannii | 1 |
| Acinetobacter johnsonii | 1 |
| Actinomyces sp. | 1 |
| Aeromonas salmonicida | 1 |
| Arthrobacter antarcticus | 1 |
| Bacilli sp. | 1 |
| Bacteroides sp. | 1 |
| Bacteroidia sp., Psychrobacter faecalis | 1 |
| Chishuiella sp. | 1 |
| Clostridium perfringens | 1 |
| Clostridium septicum, Clostridium sp. | 1 |
| Clostridium sp., Proteus vulgaris | 1 |
| Dietzia sp., Peptostreptococcus russellii | 1 |
| Enterobacter hormaechei | 1 |
| Escherichia fergusonii | 1 |
| Firmicutes sp., Lactococcus lactis | 1 |
| Fusobacterium periodonticum | 1 |
| Gemella | 1 |
| Hafnia alvei | 1 |
| Kurthia sp. | 1 |
| Kurthia zopfii | 1 |
| Lactococcus garvieae | 1 |
| Lactococcus lactis, Psychrobacter pacificensis | 1 |
| Lactococcus raffinolactis | 1 |
| Mannheimia varigena | 1 |
| Myroides sp. | 1 |
| Pasteurella sp. | 1 |
| Pseudoalteromonas sp. | 1 |
| Pseudomonas deceptionensis | 1 |
| Psychrobacter pacificensis | 1 |
| Ralstonia pickettii, Carnobacterium sp. | 1 |
| Ralstonia sp. | 1 |
| Ralstonia sp., Psychrobacter sp. | 1 |
| Shewanella putrefaciens | 1 |
| Staphylococcus rostri | 1 |
| Staphylococcus warneri | 1 |
| Vibrio diazotrophicus | 1 |
| Vibrio vulnificus | 1 |
| Weissella ceti | 1 |
| Weissella cibaria | 1 |
| Total | 154 |
Sequencing data were available for kidney in 154 out of 162 cases. In twin abortions with sequencing data available from both fetuses, both most abundant taxa are listed if not identical.