Table 5. Faecal microbiota of breast-fed 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 = 27 | n = 50 | n = 31 | Intermediate | Low | Low | ||||
| 1Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Mean | SD | Risk | Risk | Risk | |
| Bacteroides fragilis group | 4.19 | 1.58 | 4.43 | 1.32 | 3.99 | 1.42 | 0.570 | 0.378 | 0.710 |
| Staphylococcus spp. | 5.40 | 0.94 | 5.51 | 1.01 | 4.94 | 1.19 | 0.826 | 0.460 | 0.580 |
| C. coccoides - E. rectale group | 5.28 | 1.67 | 5.19 | 1.62 | 4.98 | 1.29 | 0.819 | 0.625 | 0.514 |
| C. leptum group | 4.38 | 1.30 | 4.70 | 1.49 | 4.38 | 1.36 | 0.471 | 0.418 | 0.995 |
| Lactobacillus group | 6.55 | 1.26 | 6.64 | 1.07 | 6.41 | 0.94 | 0.727 | 0.360 | 0.632 |
| E. coli | 6.03 | 1.93 | 5.54 | 1.79 | 6.18 | 1.80 | 0.315 | 0.199 | 0.780 |
| Bifidobacterium spp. | 6.61 | 1.89 | 7.14 | 1.64 | 7.52 | 1.51 | 0.224 | 0.362 | 0.057 |
| B. longum | 5.49 | 1.31 | 6.18 | 1.66 | 6.42 | 1.83 | 0.098 | 0.522 | 0.039* |
| B. breve | 5.44 | 1.41 | 5.81 | 1.78 | 5.07 | 1.69 | 0.430 | 0.106 | 0.447 |
| B. bifidum | 4.52 | 1.00 | 4.88 | 1.54 | 4.91 | 1.39 | 0.334 | 0.920 | 0.324 |
| B. adolescentis | 5.36 | 0.64 | 5.14 | 1.54 | 5.16 | 0.54 | 0.792 | 0.972 | 0.824 |
| B. catenulatum | 4.77 | 1.63 | 5.72 | 1.69 | 5.54 | 2.20 | 0.212 | 0.787 | 0.358 |
| B. angulatum | 3.40 | 0.42 | 4.92 | 0.59 | 4.27 | 1.08 | 0.048* | 0.207 | 0.229 |
| B. infantis | 5.59 | 0.64 | 5.80 | 2.13 | 5.23 | 0.04 | 0.827 | 0.656 | 0.778 |
| B. lactis | 3.81 | 0.54 | 4.02 | 0.59 | 4.07 | 0.68 | 0.535 | 0.890 | 0.464 |
| B. dentium | 4.42 | 0.22 | 4.35 | 0.65 | - | - | - | - | - |
1
Data are expressed as mean and standard deviation of log cells/g faeces.
2
Statistical significant differences were calculated using ANOVA and post hoc LSD test. Significant differences were established at p<0.050.