Table 2. Anti-microbial serological markers in patients with chronic liver diseases and healthy controls.

		ASCA	Anti-OMP Plus™
	Number	IgA and/or IgG	IgA
Liver cirrhosis with various etiology	286	110 (38.5%)*	179 (62.6%)*
Chronic HCV without cirrhosis	124	11 (8.9%)#	3 (2.4%)#
Autoimmune liver diseases without cirrhosis	266	59 (22.2%)	44 (16.5%)
PBC	153	31 (20.3%)	26 (17.0%)
PSC	59	18 (30.5%)&,φ	9 (15.3%)⊥
AIH	54	10 (18.5%)	9 (16.7%)
Healthy controls	100	16 (16%)	20 (20%)

AIH = autoimmune hepatitis, HCV = viral hepatitis C, PBC = primary biliary cirrhosis, PSC = primary sclerosing cholangitis.

*p<0.001 between liver cirrhosis and chronic HCV, autoimmune liver diseases, healthy controls.

^# p<0.001 between chronic HCV patients and autoimmune liver diseases, healthy controls.

^& p = 0.04 between PSC and healthy controls.

^φ p<0.001 between PSC and chronic HCV.

^⊥ p<0.01 between PSC and chronic HCV.

by using Fisher's exact test or χ²-test with Yates correction if appropriate.