Fig. 6.

Succession of the three major bacterial genera in the gut microbiota during recovery from diarrhea.

Median percentage with interquartile range and distribution for the individual patients with respect to Bifidobacterium (A and D), Streptococcus (B and E) and Escherichia (D and F) contribution to the stool microbiota at the indicated day of hospitalization. In A to C data are presented for all investigated diarrhea patients; in D–F, patients were separated with respect to etiology (ON: other bacterial pathogens than E. coli and no pathogens detected; PA: EPEC and EAEC; T: ETEC infections) compared to healthy local controls (H).