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Table 5.

Effects of dietary XOS supplementation on fecal microbiota abundance in weaned piglets (n = 6; lg copies/g).

Items	Blank control group	XOS-supplemented groups (g/t)			Positive control group	Pooled SEM	P-value
		100	250	500
Day 7
Lactobacillus	6.82	6.89	7.22	7.20	7.36	0.31	0.33
Bifidobacterium spp.	5.44	5.68	5.51	5.58	5.84	0.17	0.17
Escherichia coli	6.38	6.66	6.35	6.37	6.71	0.22	0.37
Bacteroidetes	10.60	10.79	10.68	10.69	10.76	0.26	0.47
Day 21
Lactobacillus	7.90^a	7.33^ab	6.94^b	6.57^b	6.50^b	0.28	0.02
Bifidobacterium spp.	5.78	5.84	5.91	5.22	5.54	0.11	0.27
Escherichia coli	6.14	5.84	6.12	6.16	6.23	0.11	0.64
Bacteroidetes	10.80	10.55	10.54	10.41	10.66	0.11	0.51
Day 56
Lactobacillus	7.36^b	7.84^a	7.47^ab	7.43^ab	7.57^ab	0.13	0.02
Bifidobacterium spp.	6.20^b	7.15^a	7.13^a	7.14^a	6.94^ab	0.25	0.04
Escherichia coli	6.61	6.49	6.96	6.39	6.58	0.36	0.86
Bacteroidetes	10.90^ab	11.10^a	10.85^ab	10.98^ab	10.66^b	0.11	0.01

Data in the same row with different superscripts differ significantly (P < 0.05).