Fig. 6

Overview of the study design. A total of 60 goats were selected based on bacteriological culture results and randomly treated with the antibiotic cefazolin at dry-off (TG) or dried without receiving any treatment (CG). A total of 153 pooled milk samples were analyzed for SCC, bacteriology, and 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. The figure was created with BioRender.com.