Table 5.
Number of 16S rRNA gene copies detected in 50 ng of fecal DNA
| qPCR assay | All (n = 44) | BMI < 251 (n = 17) | BMI > 25 (n = 22) | P2 |
| Bifidobacterium catenulatum/Pseudocatenulatum-like | 4.8 (1.6)3 | 5.4 (0.7) | 4.3 (1.8) | 0.366 |
| Bifidobacterium spp. | 5.8 (1.0) | 5.5 (1.0) | 6.2 (0.9) | 0.009 |
| Clostridium coccoides/Eubacterium rectale-group | 7.3 (0.2) | 7.3 (0.1) | 7.3 (0.2) | 0.630 |
| Clostridium cocleatum 88% | 5.6 (1.1) | 5.5 (1.4) | 5.6 (1.0) | 0.483 |
| Collinsella aerofaciens-like | 5.6 (1.1) | 5.3 (1.2) | 5.8 (0.9) | 0.294 |
| Coprococcus eutactus 97% | 5.3 (1.5) | 5.5 (1.7) | 5.4 (1.3) | 0.639 |
| Desulfovibrio desulfuricans-group | 3.9 (0.8) | 3.8 (0.6) | 4.0 (0.9) | 0.403 |
| Eubacterial 16S | 6.0 (0.3) | 5.9 (0.4) | 6.0 (0.3) | 0.630 |
| Lactobacillus-group | 3.9 (0.9) | 4.2 (0.7) | 3.7 (0.9) | 0.060 |
| Ruminococcus torques 91% | 4.6 (0.8) | 4.4 (0.8) | 4.8 (0.7) | 0.461 |
| Ruminococcus torques 94% | 3.8 (1.0) | 4.0 (1.3) | 3.6 (0.8) | 0.409 |
| Streptococcus bovis-like | 2.7 (1.5) | 3.2 (2.1) | 2.5 (1.2) | 0.732 |
| Veillonella spp. | 3.4 (1.0) | 3.5 (1.1) | 3.4 (1.1) | 0.745 |
1
Body mass index (BMI) data missing for 5 subjects;
2
Calculated with Mann-Whitney U-test;
3
Values are presented as log10 averages with standard deviation in parentheses. qPCR: Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.