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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Gastroenterology. 2011 Jul 8;141(5):1782–1791. doi: 10.1053/j.gastro.2011.06.072

Figure 2. The pediatric gut microbiomes of children with IBS are characterized by greater abundance of Gammaproteobacteria.

Figure 2

A) Percentage of all bacterial classes represented. B) Percentage of bacterial taxa found in lower abundance (< 5% of total bacteria). Healthy children: 29 samples from 22 subjects, IBS: 42 samples from 22 patients. #: Significantly different between IBS and healthy children (P <.05). Data were generated by 454 pyrosequencing (V1–V3 region).