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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 9.
Published in final edited form as: Gut. 2013 Jul 29;63(7):1069–1080. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2013-304909

Figure 4. AIEC infection decrease the richness and diversity of intestinal microbiota in T5KO mice.

Figure 4

Rarefaction curves at day 14 (A–C) and day 119 (B–D) for uninfected (A–B) or AIEC infected (C–D) groups. The rarefaction curve is based on 454-based DNA sequencing of 16S rRNA gene libraries from feces and depicts the number of unique operational taxonomic units (OTUs). Data are represented as mean ± S.E.M. of N=3/5 mice per group. The slope of the line is directly related to the number of unique OTUs (i.e. increased diversity) in a sample.