Table 3 Relative abundance of significantly different taxa in the fecal bacterial microbiota of foals with (n = 4 at T1, n = 6 at T2) and without (n = 11) diarrhea
Age group | Median relative abundance % (CI %) | p-value | FDR adjusted p-value | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Healthy | Diarrhea | ||||
Phylum | |||||
Chlamydiae | T2 | 0.2 (0.01–0.9) | <0.001(0- < 0.001) | 0.02 | 0.08 |
Class | |||||
Chlamydiae | T2 | 0.2 (0.01–0.9) | <0.001(0- < 0.001) | 0.02 | 0.11 |
Verrucomicrobia Subdivision 5 | T2 | 3.2 (1.4–4.1) | 0.05 (<0.011–0.3) | 0.004 | 0.06 |
Order | |||||
Chlamydiales | T2 | 0.2 (0.01–0.9) | <0.001(0- < 0.001) | 0.02 | 0.14 |
Unclassified Verrucomicrobial Subdivison 5 | T2 | 3.2 (1.4–4.1) | 0.05 (<0.011–0.3) | 0.004 | 0.08 |
Family | |||||
Ruminococcaceae | T1 | 18.2 (0.6–8.5) | 1.8 (4.5–23.3) | 0.04 | 1 |
Clostridiaceae | T2 | 0.7 (0.3–3) | 0.2 0.1–0.4) | 0.04 | 0.35 |