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From: Microbial communities and inflammatory response in the endometrium differ between normal and metritic dairy cows at 5–10 days post-partum

Figure 3

Stacked-bar plots of endometrial bacterial community composition by phylum, in healthy, metritic and septic metritic cows. A Average community composition of swab samples by phylum in healthy cows (n = 19) as compared to cows diagnosed with metritis (n = 11). Note the increased abundance of the Bacteroidetes phylum in metritic cows, mainly at the expanse of the Proteobacteria and Frimicutes phyla. B Community composition of individual endometrial swab samples by phylum in healthy cows (n = 19) and cows diagnosed with metritis (n = 11). Note the relatively uniform bacterial community composition of metritic cows compared to the more diverse composition of healthy cows. C Community composition of individual uterine biopsy samples from cows diagnosed with metritis (n = 2 cows) or septic metritis (n = 1 cow); C: caruncular samples; IC: inter-caruncular sample. Note the similarity between these abundance plots, the individual plots of metritic swab samples (B), and the mean metritic community composition (A).

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