Table 3.

Bacterial taxa showing significant difference in relative abundances in ileal MAM between healthy control and patients with Crohn’s disease.

Taxa	Healthy control (n = 23)	Patients with Crohn's disease (n = 32)	P-value †
g__Faecalibacterium *	7.94 ± 6.41	3.13 ± 4.93	0.004
f__Lachnospiraceae (unclassified genus)	7.39 ± 7.58	3.11 ± 3.42	0.017
g__Blautia *	5.66 ± 3.79	3.22 ± 3.38	0.018
g__Ruminococcus *	3.19 ± 3.10	1.03 ± 1.84	0.005
g__Coprococcus *	2.51 ± 1.99	0.93 ± 2.06	0.006
g__Roseburia *	2.48 ± 2.11	0.77 ± 1.62	0.002
g__Gemmiger *	2.15 ± 2.34	0.57 ± 1.57	0.008
g__Butyricicoccus *	0.63 ± 0.64	0.25 ± 0.49	0.021
g__Sutterella	0.57 ± 0.50	1.17 ± 1.47	0.038
g__Clostridium (Lachnospiraceae)	0.33 ± 0.36	1.23 ± 2.11	0.023

Values mean relative abundance (% of total bacteria) and are shown as mean ± standard deviation.

Bold font shows statistically higher values among the two groups compared.

* Genus including butyrate-producing species or isolate

† P-values were calculated using Welch’s t-test

MAM, mucosa-associated microbiota