Investigation of milk microbiota of healthy and mastitic Sahiwal cattle

BMC Microbiology

Table 1 Percent abundance (mean) comparison at phylum taxonomic level in milk samples from Sahiwal cattle grouped as healthy, clinical mastitis and with subclinical mastitis only signifcantly different taxa are denoted with letters

Taxa	Healthy			Clinical Mastitis			Subclinical Mastitis
Phylum	Mean		SEM	Mean		SEM	Mean		SEM
Proteobacteria	55.99	^a	14.43	2.68	^b	0.90	48.06	^a	11.95
Firmicutes	15.87		15.13	64.24		14.01	38.98		15.76
Acidobacteriota	11.32		5.25	0.00		0.00	2.98		2.51
Actinobacteriota	8.94		3.19	0.61		0.51	3.86		2.14
Bacteroidota	6.61	^a	2.33	0.00	^b	0.00	1.90	^ab	0.99
Fusobacteriota	0.00	^b	0.00	31.79	^a	13.62	0.02	^b	0.02

SEM standard error mean, Different letters (a,b) in the same rows denotes differences between means for p-value < 0.05

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