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Table 1 Detailed information on twenty C. difficile negative horses studied via high-throughput amplicons sequencing analysis with and without diarrhoea

From: Faecal microbiota characterisation of horses using 16 rdna barcoded pyrosequencing, and carriage rate of clostridium difficile at hospital admission

Clinical history of horses

Date of sampling

Animal number

Age (years)

Diagnostic

Diarrhea

Hospital stay (days)

Antibiotic treatment (days) 1

NSAIDs treatment

9/10/13

13

12

Colic

+

5

Pen-Gen (1)2

F-M

21/10/13

14

3

Diarrhoea

+

3

-

-

28/10/13

15

21

Diarrhoea and colic

+

2

SXT (2)

F-M

5/11/13

17

13

Equine atypical myopathy

+

1

-

-

18/11/13

23

9

Diarrhoea and colic

+

1

-

Dipyrone

18/11/13

25

2

Haemorrhagic enterocolitis

+

1

-

-

Hyperlipemia

22/11/13

26

5

Diarrhoea and weight loss

+

1

Xnl (1)

F-M

Dipyrone

26/11/13

27

6

Colic

+

2

-

F-M

26/11/13

28

11

Colic

+

4

Pen-Gen-LZ (1)2

F-M

Dipyrone

Firocoxib

19/12/13

29

2

Diarrhoea

+

2

-

-

8/10/13

11

11

Oesophageal obstruction

-

1

Pen-Gen-LZ (1)2

F-M

9/10/13

12

8

Horse fall

-

10

Xnl (7)2

Dipyrone

28/10/13

16

21

Wound

-

3

SXT (4)2

Dipyrone

7/11/13

18

8

Equine atypical myopathy

-

1

-

-

8/11/13

19

6

Colic

-

1

-

-

12/11/13

20

6

Colic

-

1

-

F-M

13/11/13

21

5

Equine atypical myopathy

-

1

-

-

18/11/13

22

3

Osteochondritis dissecans screening

-

1

-

-

18/11/13

24

9

Colic

-

2

Pen-Gen (2)2

F-M

19/12/13

30

2

Arthroscopy

-

3

-

-

  1. NSAIDs nonsteroidal anti-inflamatory dugs
  2. Pen penicillin, Gen gentamicin, Xnl ceftiofur, SXT trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole, LZ metronidazole
  3. F-M Flunixin meglumine
  4. 1Time before antibiotic administration in days 2Antibiotic treatment in progress at the time of sampling