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Table 1 Effect of vaginal discharge score on the risk for the detection of Escherichia coli and Trueperella pyogenes in grazing dairy cows (n = 55)

From: Identification of Escherichia coli and Trueperella pyogenes isolated from the uterus of dairy cows using routine bacteriological testing and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy

 

Bacterial growtha

% (n)

ORb (95% CI)

P

Vaginal discharge (VD)

  

0.06

 VD0

39 (7/18)

Referent

 

 VD1

25 (3/12)

0.64 (0.21–2.01)

 

 VD2

60 (6/10)

1.54 (0.71–3.33)

 

 VD3

73 (11/15)

1.88 (0.98–3.63)

 
  1. aDetermined by routine bacteriological testing
  2. bOR (95% CI): Odds ratio and 95% confidence interval