Fig. 5. Burn injury selectively reduces butyrate producing bacterial strains Gnavus and Eutactus.

Mice were subjected to 28% total body surface area burn injury. On post-burn day 6, the mice were harvested and stool samples were collected from the cecum and sent for phylogenetic analysis. The (A) Ruminococcus gnavus and (B) Coprococcus eutactus from uninjured mice were compared to burn-injured mice. Sample size is 4 per group. *P<0.05 compared with sham as determined by Student t test.