Table 1 Experimental groups testing the effect of antibiotic-disrupted resident microbiomes on Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG) virulence.

From: Resident Microbiome Disruption with Antibiotics Enhances Virulence of a Colonizing Pathogen

 

Sham

MG

No Antibiotics (Control)

N = 10 (6:4)

N = 10 (6:4)

Short Antibiotics (Pre-MG only)

N = 10 (5:5)

N = 10 (5:5)

Long Antibiotics (Pre + Post-MG)

N = 10 (5:5)

N = 10 (5:5)

  1. Sex ratios listed as (male:female). All birds in the “MG” treatments were confirmed naïve to the pathogen at capture (see Supplement).
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