Table 2. Bacterial biodiversity in NASH patients and controls.

		NASH (Baseline)			NASH (Month 6)
	Control	Total	Usual care	Probiotics	Usual care	Probiotics
N	22	16	9	7	9	7
Number of reads	8102±1407	7937±2036	7779±2300	8140±1796	7309±1488	7048±818
Number of OTUs	810±255	792±182	860±175	704±162	772±207	631±250
Shannon’s index	4.75±0.77	4.77±0.59	4.95±0.58	4.53±0.56	4.72±0.6	4.55±0.65
Inverse Simpson’s diversity index	33.19±23.1	34.16±22.37	41.67±25.47	24.52±13.88	33.24±19.13	31.05±19.25
Pielou’s evenness index	0.71±0.08	0.72±0.07	0.73±0.07	0.69±0.07	0.71±0.07	0.71±0.06
Chao-1 estimators	2231±865	2105±630	2357±565	1781±592	2180±649	1540±680