Irish Veterinary Journal

Table 3 Spearman rank correlations between clinical respiratory signs and lung lesions detected by thoracic ultrasonography

From: Association between clinical respiratory signs, lung lesions detected by thoracic ultrasonography and growth performance in pre‐weaned dairy calves

Clinical signs^a	Day 0			Day 7			Day 14
Clinical signs^a	TUSS2^b	TUSS3^b	TUSS4^b	TUSS2^b	TUSS3^b	TUSS4^b	TUSS2^b	TUSS3^b	TUSS4^b
RT^c > 39.6 °C	-0.06	-0.06	-0.04	-0.05	0.43^*	-0.09	-0.07	0.43	-0.04
Cough	-0.04	-0.04	0.70^*	-0.08	0.39	0.39	-0.20	0.25	0.25
Nasal discharge	-	-	-	0.09	0.15	0.02	-0.09	0.01	-0.13
Eye discharge	-	-	-	0.22	0.04	-0.14	-0.08	0.04	-0.14
Ear dropping	-	-	-	-0.04	0.24	-0.07	0.28	-0.05	-0.05

^aPercentage of calves showing each clinical respiratory sign associated with bovine respiratory disease.
^bThoracic ultrasonography score (TUSS). For more details regarding TUSS see material and methods section.
^cRectal temperature (RT)
^*P-value < 0.05.

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