TABLE 2.
Significantly discriminative taxa between the twenty-eight Encephalitis patients and healthy subjects determined by Mann-Whitney U tests.
| Taxa | Encephalitis, M (IQR) | Control, M (IQR) | p value |
| The taxa increased in encephalitis patients | |||
| Phylum Proteobacteria | 0.138 (0.084–0.241) | 0.068 (0.052–0.116) | 0.001 |
| Class Bacilli | 0.015 (0.006–0.028) | 0.004 (0.002–0.007) | <0.001 |
| Class Gammaproteobacteria | 0.096 (0.046–0.195) | 0.026 (0.016–0.074) | <0.001 |
| Order Lactobacillales | 0.014 (0.006–0.027) | 0.003 (0.002–0.007) | <0.001 |
| Order Erysipelotrichales | 0.008 (0.004–0.034) | 0.004 (0.003–0.006) | 0.011 |
| Order Enterobacteriales | 0.081 (0.041–0.191) | 0.024 (0.013–0.058) | <0.001 |
| Family Porphyromonadaceae | 0.042 (0.026–0.110) | 0.016 (0.010–0.022) | <0.001 |
| Family Enterobacteriaceae | 0.081 (0.041–0.191) | 0.024 (0.013–0.058) | <0.001 |
| Genus Parabacteroides | 0.041 (0.026–0.110) | 0.016 (0.010–0.021) | <0.001 |
| Family Rikenellaceae, genus undefined | 0.024 (0.009–0.043) | 0.010 (0.004–0.017) | 0.001 |
| Family S24-7, genus undefined | 0.007 (0.005–0.009) | 0.002 (0.001–0.005) | 0.001 |
| Genus Oscillospira | 0.011 (0.008–0.015) | 0.006 (0.004–0.008) | 0.003 |
| Family Enterobacteriaceae, genus undefined | 0.076 (0.034–0.189) | 0.022 (0.012–0.056) | <0.001 |
| Genus Akkermansia | 0.006 (0.003–0.016) | 0.003 (0.001–0.012) | 0.063 |
| The taxa decreased in encephalitis patients | |||
| Phylum Bacteroidetes | 0.442 (0.221–0.541) | 0.510 (0.388–0.644) | 0.078 |
| Class Clostridia | 0.236 (0.145–0.372) | 0.315 (0.221–0.452) | 0.075 |
| Class Betaproteobacteria | 0.012 (0.007–0.017) | 0.022 (0.013–0.031) | 0.011 |
| Order Clostridiales | 0.236 (0.145–0.372) | 0.315 (0.221–0.452) | 0.075 |
| Order Burkholderiales | 0.012 (0.007–0.017) | 0.022 (0.013–0.031) | 0.011 |
| Family Lachnospiraceae | 0.037 (0.022–0.059) | 0.068 (0.056–0.111) | <0.001 |
| Genus Prevotella | 0.007 (0.003–0.014) | 0.025 (0.016–0.106) | <0.001 |
| Family Lachnospiraceae, genus undefined | 0.022 (0.013–0.035) | 0.035 (0.023–0.045) | 0.010 |
| Genus Faecalibacterium | 0.008 (0.004–0.028) | 0.040 (0.022–0.069) | 0.001 |
| Genus Ruminococcus | 0.004 (0.002–0.009) | 0.009 (0.004–0.016) | 0.030 |
| Genus Sutterella | 0.011 (0.006–0.016) | 0.021 (0.012–0.030) | 0.005 |
M, median; IQR, interquartile range.