Table 4.

Quantitative analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and bft genes from UC and nIBD biopsy samples

	B. fragilis	ETBF
nIBD
Mean	412.7	.03
N	60	60
SEM	199.9	.03
UC
Mean	171.6	83.4
N	35	35
SEM	69.8	28.1
P value	0.7	0.0

SEM std. error of mean