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Table 2 Significant findings from the Gut Microbiotassay and 454 sequencing results displaying similar trends

From: Characterization of the bacterial gut microbiota of piglets suffering from new neonatal porcine diarrhoea

Primer set and respective 454 sequencing findings

Gut section estimate (ileum vs. colon)

Gut section p- value

Status estimate (diarrhoeic vs. healthy)

Status p -value

Gilt estimate (gilt vs. multiparous sow)

Gilt p -value

Percentage of diarrhoea estimate #

Percentage of diarrhoea p -value

Age estimate

Age p -value

Antibiotics estimate (treated vs. untreated)

Antibiotics p -value

Domain Bacteria B 268

0.12 [0.08,0.17]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

1.21 [1.01,1.44]

0.04

 

NS

Phylum Firmicutes 183

2.37 [1.63,3.33]

<0.0001

0.58 [0.36,0.89]

0.02

0.55 [0.33,0.87]

0.01

 

NS

1.34 [1.13,1.59]

0.001

 

NS

Class Bacilli 125

3.31 [1.98,5.20]

<0.0001

0.29 [0.18,0.46]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

1.62 [1.27,2.03]

0.0001

 

NS

Genus Enterococcus 27

3.51 [1.25,7.91]

0.02

24.15 [8.50,54.73]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

species E. hirae (3.36/11.11)

            

species E. faecium (9.87/129.60)

            

species E. durans (15.57/255.00)

            

species E. mundtii (113.00/179.00)

           

Genus Streptococcus 47

2.49 [1.53,3.82]

0.0002

0.09 [0.02,0.27]

0.0002

0.55 [0.29,0.93]

0.03

1.03 [1.01,1.05]

0.008

0.75 [0.62,0.90]

0.003

 

NS

species S. gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus (0.29/0.22)

          

species S. alactolyticus (0.27/0.18)

           

species S. uberis (0.68/0.33)

            

Genus Lactobacillus 79

4.97 [2.91,7.94]

<0.0001

0.29 [0.17,0.46]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

1.75 [1.36,2.20]

<0.0001

 

NS

species L. acidophilus (0.35/0.06)

            

Family Clostridium cluster I 17

3.32 [1.37,6.79]

-

0.36 [0.04,1.39]

-

 

NS

1.03 [1.00,1.05]

0.04

 

NS

 

NS

species Cl. perfringens; ATCC 13124 (1.18/0.47)

          

Species Cl. perfringens

9.31 [3.40,20.66]

-

1.41 [0.51,3.16]

-

 

NS

 

NS

0.67 [0.49,0.90]

0.009

 

NS

Family Clostridium cluster IV 64

0.12 [0.05,0.25]

<0.0001

0.13 [0.06,0.25]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

1.41 [1.02,1.91]

0.04

 

NS

species Ruminococcus bromii (0.00/0.26)

           

Family Clostridium cluster XIV 81

0.08 [0.05,0.14]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

0.99 [0.98,0.99]

0.001

 

NS

 

NS

species Roseburia inulinivorans (1.59/0.02)

           

Phylum Bacteroidetes 126

0.02 [0.01,0.05]

-

0.12 [0.05,0.26]

-

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

Genus Bacteroides 65

0.03 [0.01,0.07]

-

0.20 [0.08,0.43]

-

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

species Bacteroides pyogenes (0.02/0.33)†

           

species Bacteroides rodentium (0.46/0.00)†

           

species Bacteroides xylanisolvens (0.94/0.43)†

           

species Porphyromonadaceae bacterium C941 (0.00/0.01)†

         

Phylum Actinobacteria 74

2.84 [1.64,4.60]

<0.0001

0.29 [0.17,0.46]

<0.0001

 

NS

 

NS

0.80 [0.65,0.99]

0.04

 

NS

species Bifidobacterium boum (0.41/0.06)

          

species Corynebacterium kutscheri (0.39/0.34)

         

Family Bifidobacteriaceae 12

2.56 [1.28,4.61]

0.007

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

Phylum Fusobacteria 16

0.20 [0.10,0.34]

<0.0001

2.24 [1.11,4.05]

0.02

 

NS

 

NS

0.69 [0.53,0.88]

0.004

0.20 [0.05,0.52]

0.002

species F. mortiferum (2.25/1.21)

           

Class Beta- and Gammaproteobacteria 109

2.54 [1.63,3.79]

<0.0001

0.72 [0.12,2.55]

-

 

NS

 

NS

0.69 [0.52,0.88]

-

 

NS

Family Enterobacteriaceae 89

4.03 [2.50,6.16]

<0.0001

0.27 [0.04,1.02]

-

2.12 [1.09,3.75]

0.03

 

NS

0.54 [0.40,0.71]

-

 

NS

species Escherichia coli (8.61/6.22)

         

species E.coli; HQ219945.1.1457 (11.46/5.00)

         

species E. coli DEC8A (6.22/5.16)

         

Species E. coli

3.56 [2.05,5.76]

<0.0001

0.29 [0.02,1.26]

-

2.96 [1.39,5.56]

0.004

 

NS

0.58 [0.41,0.80]

-

 

NS

Class Deltaproteobacteria 1

 

NS

 

NS

 

NS

0.98 [0.97,1.00]

0.04

 

NS

0.08 [0.00,0.48]

0.02

species Desulfovibrio piger (0.00/0.00)†

         
  1. Estimated fold changes as the estimates of the exponentiated effect parameter, corresponding 95% confidence intervals [], and p-values. Superscripted numbers equal the total number of OTUs belonging to the respective taxonomic group identified by sequencing amplicons generated by the Gut Microbiotassay. OTU-ratio between diarrhoeic and healthy piglets for ileum and colon, respectively, listed in parenthesis. †indicate a significant effect of interaction (Table 3). Species mark with † are not consistent findings. #Estimated fold changes for this category are calculated as: γ percentage points, where the parameter y from column 8 is the estimate of the exponential eβ of the estimated effect parameter β for diarrhoea in formula (1). The diarrhoeic percentage points range from 0 to 100.