Dietary fermented soybean meal replacement alleviates diarrhea in weaned piglets challenged with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K88 by modulating inflammatory cytokine levels and cecal microbiota composition

Table 5 Relative abundance of cecal microbiota at the phylum level of weaned piglets^1,2

Item	- ETEC K88		+ ETEC K88		SEM	P-value
Item	- FSBM	+ FSBM	- FSBM	+ FSBM	SEM	FSBM	ETEC K88	FSBM × ETEC K88
Firmicutes	51.107	43.479	45.980	46.081	1.5906	0.250	0.696	0.238
Bacteroidetes	27.838	35.241	28.770	39.087	1.6622	0.006	0.419	0.620
Proteobacteria	15.367	10.719	20.454	12.415	1.4896	0.031	0.229	0.542
Spirochaetes	1.023	2.691	1.366	0.583	0.3400	0.496	0.182	0.069
Cyanobacteria	2.461	1.937	1.367	0.858	0.3543	0.476	0.142	0.991
Verrucomicrobia	0.115^b	1.272^a	0.446^ab	0.097^b	0.1848	0.241	0.221	0.036
Tenericutes	1.026	1.231	0.553	0.516	0.1224	0.712	0.015	0.595
Acidobacteria	0.137^b	0.770^a	0.127^b	0.020^b	0.0741	0.007	< 0.001	< 0.001
Chloroflexi	0.130^b	0.719^a	0.120^b	0.017^b	0.0680	0.005	< 0.001	< 0.001
Fusobacteria	0.006	0.003	0.143	0.005	0.0342	0.318	0.322	0.336

¹n = 06
² - ETEC K88 = infusing the phosphate buffer saline; + ETEC K88 = infusing the ETEC K88; - FSBM = control diet with 24% soybean meal; + FSBM = test diet with 6% FSBM added at the expense of soybean meal
^a,b Mean values within a row with unlike superscript letters were significantly different (p < 0.05)

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