Investigation of characteristics and classification for swine vertebral osteomyelitis in South Korea

BMC Veterinary Research

Table 3 Macroscopic characteristics of vertebral osteomyelitis (VO) cases

Sample ID	Grade¹	Location²	A(acute) / C(chronic)³	Pyemia-Related Lesions (PRL)	No. of purulent lesions⁴
1	AVO	S3	C	tail injury	1
2	AVO	T2	C	-	1
3	AVO	T7	A	muscular abscess (1), tail injury	2
4	CVO3	L7	C	tail injury	3
4	CVO3	S1	C	tail injury	3
5	AVO	T3	A	muscular abscess (1), tail injury	2
6	AVO	T9	A	skin abscess (1), muscular abscess (1), tail injury	3
7	AVO	L6	A	-	2
7	AVO	S1	A	-	2
8	AVO	L6	A	tail injury	1
9	AVO	S2	A	skin abscess (1), tail injury	3
9	AVO	S4	A	skin abscess (1), tail injury	3
10	AVO	S3	A	skin abscess (2), tail injury	3
11	AVO	S2	A	muscular abscess (1)	2
12	AVO	S3	A	tail injury	3
12	AVO	Co	A	tail injury	3
13	AVO	L7	A	tail injury	3
13	AVO	S3	A	tail injury	3
14	AVO	T8	A	-	2
14	AVO	T11	A	-	2
15	AVO	T3	A	-	3
		L7	A
		S3	C
16	AVO	L7	A	-	1
17	CVO2	T4	C	tail injury	2
18	CVO2	L2	C	tail injury	2
19	CVO2	S1	C	tail injury	2
20	CVO1	T1	C	-	1

¹Grade determined by the classification scheme proposed by Vieira-Pinto et al. (2020). AVO: acute vertebral osteomyelitis; CVO: chronic vertebral osteomyelitis
²Vertebrae number of vertebral sections (T: thoracic, L: lumbar, S: sacral, Co: coccygeal) affected by VO
³Chronicity of VO lesion
⁴Sum of VO and PRLs

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