Figure 1From: Influence of heat stress on intestinal integrity and the caecal microbiota during Enterococcus cecorum infection in broilersEC detection on culture in extraintestinal tissues. Groupwise comparisons were performed per tissue by Fisher’s exact test and post hoc Benjamini‒Hochberg adjustment (α = 0.05). Different superscript letters indicate significant differences between groups per tissue. p ≤ 0.05, n = 86 [noninoculated, thermoneutral (TN)], 88 [noninoculated, heat stress (HS)], 89 [EC-inoculated, thermoneutral (TN + EC)], and 87 [EC-inoculated, heat stress (HS + EC)] for heart, liver, spleen, and in total, n = 40 (TN, HS, and TN + EC), 42 (HS + EC) for free thoracic vertebra (FTV) and femoral heads (FH). FTV and FH were sampled only at 21 and 42 dph.Back to article page