Table 3.
Oral and gut microbial diversity at the start and end of the study.
| Sample covariates | Oral |
Gut |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chao1 | Shannon | Chao1 | Shannon | |
| TP-A samples: | ||||
| No-RTI (21) vs RTI-S (19) | 0.80 | 0.82 | 0.48 | 0.82 |
| CoNS: -ve (n = 17) vs +ve (n = 23) | 0.30 | 0.48 | na | na |
| TP-C samples: | ||||
| No-RTI (21) vs RTI-S (17) | 5.5 × 10−7 | 6.6 × 10−6 | 0.76 | 0.40 |
| CoNS: -ve (n = 15) vs +ve (n = 23) | 6.8 × 10−3 | 0.10 | na | na |
Microbial richness was assessed using the Shannon diversity index and Chao1 measures, p values. Abbreviations: not applicable (na), RTI symptoms (RTI-S) and no RTI symptoms (no-RTI), coagulase-negative Staphylococci (CoNS), time point (TP): A, baseline; C, end of study/RTI-recovery.