Table 2. Faecal microbiota of infants with different HLA-DQ genotype at 7 days of age analysed by qPCR.

							2p-value
	High risk		Intermediate risk		Low risk		High-	Intermediate-	High-
	n = 39		n = 67		n = 44		Intermediate	Low	Low
	1Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Risk	Risk	Risk
Bacteroides fragilis group	4.54	1.59	4.32	1.34	4.12	1.49	0.538	0.623	0.352
Staphylococcus spp.	5.40	0.90	5.34	1.13	4.61	1.11	0.893	0.184	0.200
C. coccoides - E. rectale group	5.39	1.53	5.20	1.56	5.17	1.46	0.583	0.917	0.548
C. leptum group	4.36	1.21	4.44	1.47	4.23	1.54	0.841	0.563	0.749
Lactobacillus group	6.50	1.13	6.69	1.05	6.52	1.02	0.373	0.417	0.911
E. coli	6.19	1.93	5.71	1.93	6.00	1.85	0.258	0.505	0.710
Bifidobacterium spp.	6.38	1.79	6.99	1.66	7.43	1.42	0.087	0.200	0.007*
B. longum	5.27	1.29	6.12	1.58	6.21	1.72	0.012*	0.774	0.010*
B. breve	5.27	1.47	5.31	1.79	5.14	1.56	0.908	0.643	0.755
B. bifidum	4.47	0.97	4.67	1.45	4.89	1.27	0.523	0.432	0.206
B. adolescentis	4.74	0.79	4.90	1.50	5.23	0.45	0.788	0.575	0.410
B. catenulatum	4.69	1.38	5.41	1.61	5.11	1.85	0.193	0.523	0.487
B. angulatum	3.63	0.50	4.94	0.66	4.43	1.08	0.035*	0.260	0.184
B. infantis	5.62	0.58	5.78	1.91	4.80	0.69	0.819	0.215	0.300
B. lactis	3.91	0.48	3.89	0.55	4.22	0.63	0.959	0.244	0.229
B. dentium	4.42	0.22	4.27	0.61	4.21	-	-	-	-

¹Data are expressed as mean and standard deviation of log cells/g faeces.

²Statistical significant differences were calculated using ANOVA and post hoc LSD test. Significant differences were established at p<0.050.