Table 4.
Abundances of 16S rRNA genes originating in the 10 most highly represented bifidobacterial species (normalized by total 16S rRNA genes; 30 infants per group)
| Bifidobacterium species | Mean % (SEM) |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Breast | Goat | Cow | |
| B. longum | 26.14 (5.36) | 16.72 (4.30) | 19.22 (4.46) |
| B. brevea | 19.56 (5.97) | 7.08 (3.79) | 9.97 (3.68) |
| B. bifidum | 6.92 (1.96) | 9.25 (3.25) | 1.95 (0.88) |
| B. pseudocatenulatum | 2.91 (2.06) | 6.10 (2.65) | 1.86 (1.33) |
| B. dentium | 4.76 (3.06) | 2.06 (1.58) | 1.77 (1.75) |
| B. adolescentis | 0.38 (0.33) | 1.86 (1.34) | 3.51 (2.46) |
| B. animalis | 0.00 (0.00) | 0.66 (0.50) | 1.84 (1.35) |
| B. catenulatum | 0.02 (0.01) | 1.68 (1.65) | 0.23 (0.22) |
| B. kashiwanohense | 0.13 (0.06) | 0.22 (0.16) | 0.05 (0.04) |
| B. scardovii | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.01 (0.01) | 0.11 (0.07) |
a
Breast versus cow and goat, P < 0.05.