TABLE 1.
CFUs collected from all calf tissues and sum of reads per tissue from the targeted next-generation sequencing.
| Animal | Tissue | Colonies collected/2.5 g of tissue | Total sequencing reads |
| Calf 1 | Ileum | 2,201 | 7,552,792 |
| Jejunum | 2,643 | 8,316,242 | |
| Ileum LN1 | 583 | 7,453,063 | |
| Jejunum LN | 911 | 8,369,757 | |
| Calf 2 | Ileum | 10,228 | 8,044,558 |
| Jejunum | 2,162 | 7,972,065 | |
| Ileum LN | 425 | 7,311,431 | |
| Jejunum LN | 6,113 | 8,833,800 | |
| Calf 3 | Ileum | 27,024 | 6,683,118 |
| Jejunum | 27,313 | 10,755,619 | |
| Ileum LN | 929 | 8,913,916 | |
| Jejunum LN | 1,649 | 11,777,854 | |
| Calf 4 | Ileum | 1,762 | 6,206,280 |
| Jejunum | 5,527 | 8,696,110 | |
| Ileum LN | 4,298 | 7,600,686 | |
| Jejunum LN | 4,221 | 11,838,972 | |
| Calf 5 | Ileum | 1,178 | 7,316,934 |
| Jejunum | 620 | 7,875,721 | |
| Ileum LN | 397 | 7,594,980 | |
| Jejunum LN | 2,465 | 13,393,191 | |
| Calf 6 | Ileum | 392 | – |
| Jejunum | 383 | – | |
| Ileum LN | 17 | – | |
| Jejunum LN | 44 | – | |
| Control calf 1 | Ileum | 255 | – |
| Jejunum | 3080 | – | |
| Ileum LN | 428 | – | |
| Jejunum LN | 0 | – | |
| Control calf 2 | Ileum | 2527 | – |
| Jejunum | 0 | – | |
| Ileum LN | 196 | – | |
| Jejunum LN | 85 | – | |
| Inoculum | – | – | 8,605,962 |
1LN, lymph nodes.