TABLE 1.

Relative abundances of bacterial phyla.

	IBS group			Control group
Phyla	Blastocystis	No Blastocystis	p-value	Blastocystis	No Blastocystis	p-value
Actinobacteria	0.006	0.004	0.548	0.002	0.006	0.090
Bacteroidetes	0.366	0.468	0.046	0.340	0.412	0.347
Epsilonbacteraeota	0.009	4.52 × 10–5	<0.001	7.40 × 10–5	5.29 × 10–5	0.740
Firmicutes	0.429	0.382	0.595	0.479	0.498	0.880
Fusobacteria	0.013	7.14 × 10–5	0.018	9.39 × 10–5	8.77 × 10–5	0.976
Lentisphaerae	0.002	0.003	0.771	0.005	0.004	0.525
Proteobacteria	0.094	0.105	0.986	0.039	0.055	0.525
Spirochaetes	0	0	/	2.24 × 10–5	0	0.148
Synergistetes	0.002	8.64 × 10–6	0.037	1.70 × 10–5	3.16 × 10–4	0.610
Tenericutes	0.036	0.013	0.049	0.108	0.008	0.059
Verrucomicrobia	0.040	0.005	0.046	0.002	0.001	0.786

For statistical analysis, Mann–Whitney test was performed.

Significant p-values appeared in bold.