Table 3 Serogroups detected in 11 flocks in the clinical trial32 from 7–8 single swabs (current study) and pooled samples with 16–60 swabs per sample.

From: Serogroups of Dichelobacter nodosus, the cause of footrot in sheep, are randomly distributed across England

Flock ID

Number of pooled samples

Number of swabs (current study)

Number of D. nodosus positive swabs (current study)

Serogroups detected

1

16

8

2

C

2

20

7

6

BCEhi

3

25

7

3

aBcH

4

29

7

4

aH

5

34

7

4

F

6

36

8

4

BdeHi

7

54

8

6

ABHi

8

55

7

6

ABcEH

9

55

8

5

AcH

10

60

7

6

ABH

11

60

8

8

aBH

  1. Serogroups detected from both studies are upper case, from pooled swabs are lower case italics, and from the current study are lower case underlined and bold.
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