Table 1 Correlation between Shannon diversity index and bacterial load in mammary gland health status.

From: Milk microbiome and bacterial load following dry cow therapy without antibiotics in dairy cows with healthy mammary gland

Health status

Correlation

P-values

Healthy

−0.33

<0.001

Clinical mastitis

−0.62

0.13

Subclinical mastitis at day 7 postpartum

−0.36

0.005

Culture positive at day 7 postpartum

−0.50

0.07

  1. The bacterial load was measured via proxy of the number of 16S rRNA genes.
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