Uterine Microbiota and Immune Parameters Associated with Fever in Dairy Cows with Metritis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to evaluate bacterial and host factors causing a fever in cows with metritis. For that, we investigated uterine microbiota using a metagenomic sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene (Study 1), and immune response parameters (Study 2) in metritic cows with and without a fever.

Principal findings (study1)

Bacterial communities were similar between the MNoFever and MFever groups based on distance metrics of relative abundance of bacteria. Metritic cows showed a greater prevalence of Bacteroidetes, and Bacteroides and Porphyromonas were the largest contributors to that difference. A comparison of relative abundance at the species level pointed to Bacteroides pyogenes as a fever-related species which was significantly abundant in the MFever than the MNoFever a

SUBMITTER: Jeon SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5089738 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature