Table 4.

Eubacterial diversity indices and proportions of skin amplicons also detected in wounds^a

Patienta	Shannon-Weaver diversity indexb		Shared ampliconsc
	Wound	Skin
A	0.583	0.901	4/11
B	0.583	0.410	0/5
C	1.166	0.328	3/4
D	0.510	0.328	0/4
E	0.364	0.164	0/2
F	0.219	0.819	0/10
G	0.656	0.492	2/7
H	0.874	0.246	2/3
I	0.656	0.410	0/5
J	0.801	0.492	1/6
K	0.510	0.410	0/5
L	0.583	0.655	0/8
M	0.729	0.328	1/4
N	0.364	0.573	0/6
O	0.364	0.328	2/4
P	0.801	0.082	0/1
Q	0.219	0.246	0/3
R	0.437	0.492	2/6
S	0.510	0.819	3/10
T	0.146	0.328	1/4
U	0.801	0.410	1/5
V	0.510	0.328	2/3
W	1.239	0.410	0/5
X	0.364	0.328	0/4
Y	0.583	0.492	0/6
Z	0.729	0.492	1/6

^aShaded rows indicate wounds which harbored pathogens based on established culture criteria.

^bDiversity indices were compared between wound and skin and between infected and noninfected cohorts by the Mann-Whitney U test. Significant differences were found between diversity indices of wound and skin samples and between wound and skin samples when grouped into noninfected cohorts (P < 0.05). No significant difference was found between wound and skin when grouped into infected cohorts.

^cProportion of bands present in intact-skin DGGE analysis found in chronic wound DGGE analysis.