Assessment of the lung microbiota in dogs: influence of the type of breed, living conditions and canine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Table 6 Relative abundance of taxa significantly different between the disease status

Genera	Healthy domestic dogs other than WHWTs	H-WHWTs	D-WHWTs	P-value
Limnohabitans	0% ^a,c	0.24% (0.06–0.39) ^a,b	0.14% (0.06–0.34) ^b,c	^aP < 0.001 ^bP < 0.01 ^cP < 0.05
Brochothrix	0% ^a,b	0.28% (0.05–0.45) ^a	0.5% (0.29–0.92) ^b	^aP < 0.01 ^bP < 0.001
Curvibacter	0% ^a,b	0.06% (0.01–0.10) ^a	0.07% (0–0.12) ^b	^aP < 0.05 ^bP < 0.001
Rhodoluna	0% ^a,c	0.45% (0.09–0.95) ^a,b	0.27% (0.06–0.70) ^b,c	^aP < 0.001 ^b,cP < 0.05
Pseudarcicella	0% ^a,b	0.20% (0.05–0.23) ^a	0.34% (0.04–0.58) ^b	^aP < 0.01 ^bP < 0.001
Sporichthyaceae genus	0% ^a	0.11% (0.01–0.18) ^a	0.10% (0–0.22)	^aP < 0.01
Candidatus Nomurabacteria genus	0% ^a	0.16% (0.02–0.37) ^a,b	0.06% (0.02–0.09) ^b	^a,bP < 0.001
Serratia	0% (0–0.02) ^a	0.42% (0.18–1.60) ^a	0.03% (0–0.13)	^aP < 0.05
Flavobacteriaceae genus	0.01% (0–0.03) ^a,b	0.23 (0.04–0.47) ^a	0.26% (0.09–0.37) ^b	^aP < 0.001 ^bP < 0.05

Results were expressed as median percentage of the relative abundance and interquartile range. Superscript letters reflect paired statistical difference by raw according to Kruskal-Wallis and Tukey post hoc tests. H-WHWTs Healthy West Highland white terriers, D-WHWTs West Highland white terriers affected with canine idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

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