. 2022 Oct 15;6(4):txac140. doi: 10.1093/tas/txac140

Table 7.

Day effects of complete blood count for high-risk beef steers given metaphylaxis with a negative control, tulathromycin, ceftiofur, and florfenicol at arrival

	Day¹
Item	Initial	Interim	Final	SEM²	P-value
Red blood cells, M/µL	10.13^a	9.97^a	9.13^b	0.067	<0.01
Hemoglobin, g/dL	13.24^c	14.64^b	14.91^a	0.083	<0.01
Hematocrit, %	39.74^c	43.97^b	44.67^a	0.271	<0.01
Mean corpuscular volume, fL	39.49^c	44.15^b	49.14^a	0.286	<0.01
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin, pg	13.19^c	14.70^b	16.40^a	0.093	<0.01
Mean corpuscular hemoglobin concentration, g/dL	33.43	33.21	33.40	0.127	0.29
Reticulocyte, K/µL	0.62^b	1.78^a	1.82^a	0.146	<0.01
Reticulocyte, %	<0.01^b	0.01^a	0.01^a	0.003	0.01

¹Initial = day 0 for blocks 1 and 2, interim = day 126 for block 1, day 123 for block 2, final = day 252 for group 1, day 242 for group 2.

²Largest standard error of least squares means.