Table 1. Results of OTU, species richness and diversity of microorganism communities.

	BFLD group	BCPD group	p-value
Bacteria: samples of jejunal luminal content
OTU	74.00 ± 5.77	117.00 ± 34.07	0.281
Chao 1	101.00 ± 11.72	138.00 ± 29.21	0.305
Shannon	1.06 ± 0.18	2.07 ± 0.51	0.133
Bacteria: samples of colonic luminal content
OTU	180.00 ± 11.27	137.67 ± 31.87	0.279
Chao 1	219.33 ± 5.61	168.67 ± 29.85	0.171
Shannon	2.03 ± 0.19	2.50 ± 0.38	0.324
Fungi: samples of jejunal luminal content
OTU	24.33 ± 1.20	29.33 ± 2.91	0.187
Chao 1	25.33 ± 1.20	31.00 ± 2.89	0.144
Shannon	1.41 ± 0.10	1.28 ± 0.19	0.578
Fungi: samples of colonic luminal content
OTU	24.00 ± 1.15	25.67 ± 3.84	0.699
Chao 1	26.67 ± 0.88	26.33 ± 4.18	0.942
Shannon	1.28 ± 0.02	1.27 ± 0.22	0.955