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Table 4. Microbial analysis from participant fecal samples by bacterial Tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing of the hypervariable V1-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene¹.

	Sequenced Used		OTUs 97%²			ACE 97%³		Chao1 97%³
	Baseline	3 Months	Baseline	3 Months	p-value*	Baseline	3 Months	Baseline	3 Months
LGS	4687 ± 259	4730 ± 224	1064 ± 207	938 ± 147	0.004	2191 ± 783	1606 ± 375	1749 ± 473	1396 ± 271
M	4604 ± 490	4625 ± 341	1043 ± 207	923 ± 142	0.001	2150 ± 685	1539 ± 337	1722 ± 414	1365 ± 244
S	4689 ± 336	4671 ± 175	1019 ± 173	915 ± 80	0.005	2065 ± 586	1653 ± 268	1663 ± 373	1386 ± 148

¹Data expressed as means ± SD. ²OTUs = Operational taxonomic units. ³ACE and Chao1 measure estimated bacterial richness. *p-value represents significant changes from baseline. Differences in OTUs 3% among treatments were not significant (p = 0.227).

Table 4. Microbial analysis from participant fecal samples by bacterial Tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing of the hypervariable V1-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene1.

Table 4. Microbial analysis from participant fecal samples by bacterial Tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing of the hypervariable V1-V3 region of the 16S rRNA gene¹.