Clinical, hematological and some biochemical alterations during diarrhea in Friesian calves naturally infected with E. coli and Salmonella

Table 3 Hematological and biochemical parameters in diarrheic and healthy calves included in the present study

Parameters	Healthy calves (n = 10)	Diarrheic calves (n = 33)	Reference values
Hemoglobin (g/dl)	11.44 ± 0.33^a	8.8 ± 0.16^b	Navetat et al. [9]
Hematocrit (%)	31.47 ± 0.35^b	37.78 ± 1.16^a
Erythrocytes (× 10⁶/µl)	8.71 ± 0.15^a	7.29 ± 0.17^b
Leukocytes (× 10³/µl)	8.93 ± 0.27^b	16.2 ± 0.74^a
Neutrophils (%)	58.1 ± 2.4^b	72.02 ± 0.56^a
Total proteins (g/dl)	7.08 s ± 0.09^a	6.28 ± 0.28^b
Albumin (g/dl)	3.85 ± 0.17^a	3.17 ± 0.02^b
Globulin (g/dl)	3.23 ± 0.13^a	3.1 ± 0.27^a
BUN (mg/dl)	26.03 ± 0.96^b	45.21 ± 0.32^a
Creatinine (mg/dl)	0.49 ± 0.05^b	1.51 ± 0.21^a
ALT (u/l)	61.24 ± 1.41^b	77.27 ± 2.07^a
AST (u/l)	84.18 ± 0.94^b	117.14 ± 3.46^a
Glucose (mg/dl)	106.71 ± 2.7^a	79.23 ± 1.34^b
Na⁺ (mmol/l)	135.18 ± 0.78^a	123.04 ± 1.05^b
K⁺ (mmol/l)	4.47 ± 0.06^b	5.26 ± 0.15^a
Cl⁺ (mmol/l)	95.2 ± 1.1^a	76.84 ± 0.7^b

The data are presented as mean ± SE
^a,bMeans within the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05)