Figure 1

Microbial composition of the 32 milk samples based on 16 S amplicon sequencing. Cow H3 and H5 refer to the two cows with a high SCC from the previous study by Winther et al., while cow L2 and L4 refer to the two cows with a low SCC from the same study. Asterisk above bars indicate a recorded IMI (red), SCC > 100,000 cells/mL during this study (blue), or both (black). Labelling a sample with an IMI is based on cultivation on blood agar where samples with > 10 colonies per 0.1 mL is considered to harbor an IMI (definition “A” by Dohoo et al. [38]).