Table 3 Incidences, means and ranges of relative abundance of opportunistic enteric zoonotic pathogens in feces of cranes.

From: Effects of captivity and artificial breeding on microbiota in feces of the red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis)

Pathogen

Prevalence, mean and range of relative abundance (%)

Artificially bred

Captive

Wild

Adolescent

Adult

Adolescent

Adult

Campylobacter spp.

100

96.97

100

100

54.55

9.52*

8.44*

15.97***

16.32***

0.25

0.02~39.96

0~27.73

0.21~48.19

2.25~41.5

0~4.01

Mycoplasma spp.

 

16.67

50

82.35

4.55

0

0.02

0.11

0.19**

0.0006

 

0~0.36

0~0.88

0~1.28

0~0.01

Clostridium perfringens

21.7

43.3

93.7

94.1

9.1

0.02

0.3

0.67

0.61

0.003

0~0.21

0~4.92

0~1.89

0~2.54

0~0.06

Clostridium piliforme

30.43

40

12.5

29.41

4.55

0.01*

0.31*

0.01*

0.07*

0.001

0~0.15

0~4.4

0~0.07

0~0.83

0~0.02

  1. Mean relative abundance was tested with ANOVA, followed by post hoc, Tukey-Kramer tests among groups. P values were corrected using the Benjamin-Hochberg FDR method. Mean relative abundance that significantly differed from wild group is in bold (*PFDR < 0.05, **PFDR < 0.01, ***PFDR < 0.001).
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