Table 1.
Characteristics of dogs in the FMT and placebo groups at baseline.
Table 2.
Characteristics of included dogs.
Fig 1.
Mean CCECAI over time between the placebo and FMT group.
No significant differences were noted between groups at each time point, although time remained a significant factor, with the lowest scores achieved by day 30 (p = 0.01).
Fig 2.
Box and whisker plot of the CCECAI at baseline, day 7 and day 30 in dogs that received placebo or FMT.
Table 3.
The CCECAI between treatment groups at baseline, day 7 and day 30.
Fig 3.
A) Chao-1, B) Shannon Evenness, and C) Inverse Simpson indices between the pre and one-week post FMT samples.
Fig 4.
A) Dendrogram and B) principal coordinate analysis illustrating similarities and differences in community composition (Jaccard index) between the pre (green) and one-week post FMT (blue) samples. No significant differences were noted between pre and post FMT samples.
Fig 5.
A) Dendrogram and B) principal coordinate analysis illustrating similarities and differences in community structure (Yue and Clayton index) between the pre (green) and one-week post FMT (blue) samples. No significant differences were noted between pre and post FMT samples.
Fig 6.
Relative abundances of the main bacterial phyla enriched between the pre and one-week post FMT samples.
Fig 7.
Relative abundances of the main bacterial families enriched between the pre and one-week post FMT samples.
Fig 8.
Relative abundances of the main bacterial genera enriched between the pre and one-week post FMT samples.
Table 4.
LefSe of bacterial taxa and their association with the one-week post FMT samples, demonstrating taxa with an LDA >2.