Volume 24, Number 8—August 2018
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Invasive Colonic Entamoebiasis in Wild Cane Toads, Australia
Cathy M. Shilton, Jan Šlapeta, Richard Shine, and Gregory P. Brown
Table 2
Ameba abundance from the colons of wild cane toads (Rhinella marina), tropical Australia
| Diseased, animal no. | Healthy, animal no. | p value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| W7 |
W11 |
W14 |
W21 |
W22 |
W28 |
W29 |
W30 |
C9 |
C10 |
C11 |
C12 |
C1 |
C2 |
C3 |
C4 |
C7 |
C8 |
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| OTU_12 | Entamoeba sp. CT1 | 26.68 | 2.33 | 1.07 | 0.20 | 41.47 | 0.42 | 54.96 | 0.42 | 0.89 | 0.59 | 0.71 | 0.64 | 0.72 | 0.58 | 0.30 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.04 | |
| OTU_16 | Entamoeba ranarum | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.21 | 0.00 | 3.76 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.20 | 0.00 | 35.89 | 13.64 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.29 | |
| OTU_119 | Entamoeba sp. | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.14 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.39 | |
| OTU_25 | Naegleria sp | 0.00 | 0.00 | 23.07 | 1.02 | 0.68 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.25 | |
| OTU_106 | Acanthamoeba sp | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2.78 | 0.24 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.35 | |
| OTU_132 | Hartmannella vermiformis | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.22 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1.28 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.24 | |
*p values refer to differences in abundance between diseased and healthy animals, determined by t tests. Bold type indicates significance (p<0.05).
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