Bacterial Diversity in Feline Conjunctiva Based on 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis: A Pilot Study

Table 1

Bacterial genera identified in diseased and clinically healthy cat conjunctiva.

	Healthy cats			Cats with conjunctivitis
	1	2	3	1	2	3
Actinomyces spp.
Bacillus spp.
Bacillus subtilis
Corynebacterium spp.
Lactobacillus spp.
Lactobacillus salivarius
Staphylococcus spp.
Staphylococcus capitis
Staphylococcus caprae
Staphylococcus pasteuri
Staphylococcus succinus
Staphylococcus warneri
Streptococcus infantarius
Streptococcus lutetiensis
Propionibacterium spp.
Propionibacterium acnes
Psychrobacter spp.
Psychrobacter faecalis
Psychrobacter pulmonis
Uncultured bacterium

99% identity to sequences from GenBank; identity between 97 and 99% to sequences from GenBank.