TABLE 5.

Levels of Simpson's diversity index and percentages of different microorganisms in human and animal samples

Tracera	No. of samples	Value of tracer in samplesc					P valueb
		Minimum	Maximum	Mean	SD	Median
DiE-H	103	0.16	1	0.88	0.14	0.94	0.001
DiE-A	110	0.09	1	0.80	0.21	0.89
FMFS-H	103	13.00	100	72.54	18.34	75.00	<0.001
FMFS-A	109	0.00	100	50.16	29.34	54.00
HiR-H	103	0.00	54	12.30	11.88	12.00	<0.001
HiR-A	109	0.00	96	24.55	27.61	13.00
DiC-H	105	0.38	1	0.92	0.10	0.96	0.001
DiC-A	110	0.38	1	0.87	0.11	0.91
ECP-H	105	8.00	100	78.73	20.97	87.00	<0.001
ECP-A	105	32.00	100	96.52	9.20	100
CNFC-H	104	8.00	100	72.97	21.84	75.00	<0.001
CNFC-A	109	29.00	100	92.81	12.10	100.00

^aLabels of tracers are shown in the list of variables in Table 2. H, samples of human origin; A, samples of animal origin.

^bValue of P from Student's t test.

^cValues for FMFS, HiR, ECP, and CNFC are percentages; all other values are diversity indexes expressed as rates of 1.