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. 2020 Jan 10;72(2):212–221. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa015

Table 3.

Bacteria Discriminative for Gastrointestinal Infection Groups as Identified by metagenomeSeq and Random Forest

Operational Taxonomic Unit Log Fold Change P Value Adjusted P Value Methoda
Associated with disease (GII)
Klebsiella (7) −7.20 <.0001 <.0001 Both
Leuconostoc (9) −4.20 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Lactobacillus algidus (34) −3.36 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Vagococcus (13) −3.33 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Staphylococcaceae (101) −2.81 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Pedobacter (30) −2.32 <.0001 .0001 MGS
Thermus thermophilus (26) −2.00 .0017 .0096 MGS
Anoxybacillus (33) −1.88 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Shewanella (69) −1.58 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Flavobacterium (14) −1.23 .0065 .0235 MGS
Vagococcus (20) −1.21 .0052 .0206 MGS
Myroides (38) −1.14 .0013 .0080 MGS
Associated with health (absence of GII)
Acinetobacter (10) 5.06 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Aerococcus (42) 3.68 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Acinetobacter (47) 3.14 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Acinetobacter soli (41) 2.34 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Wautersiella (61) 2.15 <.0001 <.0001 MGS
Moraxella (1) 1.77 .0120 .0409 MGS
Haemophilus (4) 1.72 .0172 .0513 MGS
Corynebacterium propinquum (2) 1.71 .0165 .0502 MGS
Bergeyella (50) 1.61 .0035 .0164 MGS
Psychrobacter (8) 1.52 .0333 .0858 MGS
Cloacibacterium (94) 1.48 <.0001 .0000 MGS
Helcococcus (22) 1.48 .0234 .0634 MGS
Schlegelella (40) 1.45 .0003 .0023 MGS
 BD1 5 (35) 1.39 .0232 .0634 MGS
Actinobacillus porcinus (37) 1.39 .0051 .0206 MGS
Moraxella (59) 1.29 .0059 .0220 MGS
Lysobacter (103) 1.23 .0002 .0015 MGS
Stenotrophomonas maltophilia (58) 1.19 .0307 .0808 MGS
Rothia (32) 1.16 .0053 .0206 MGS
Veillonella (70) 1.05 <.0001 .0003 MGS
Alloprevotella (54) 1.05 .0053 .0206 MGS
Veillonella (62) 1.03 .0014 .0082 MGS
Moraxella (60) 1.00 .0162 .0502 MGS

P values have been adjusted using Benjamini-Hochberg correction for multiple testing.

Abbreviations: GII, gastrointestinal infection; MGS, metagenomeSeq.

aBoth methods adjusted for age.