TABLE 3.
Relative abundances of significant (P ≤ 0.05) cecum-associated bacterial and fungal species postweaning (i.e., day 51 of age) in male piglets fed with human milk (HM) or milk formula (MF) during the preweaning period from day 2 until day 21 of age.
| Cecal luminal microbial species | |||
| Mean% abundance ± SEM |
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| Species | HM | MF | P-value |
| Lactobacillus johnsonii | 2.270 ± 1.343 | 0.560 ± 0.211 | 0.03 |
| Bacteroides stercoris | 1.560 ± 0.399 | 0.513 ± 0.106 | 0.01 |
| Lactobacillus amylovorus | 0.272 ± 0.092 | 0.022 ± 0.005 | 0.01 |
| Lactobacillus reuteri | 0.270 ± 0.048 | 0.118 ± 0.038 | 0.01 |
| Lactobacillus acidophilus | 0.245 ± 0.074 | 0.037 ± 0.007 | 0.01 |
| Bacteroides sp. 1 1 14 | 0.177 ± 0.070 | 0.066 ± 0.005 | 0.00 |
| Burkholderiales bacterium 1 1 47 | 0.164 ± 0.051 | 0.429 ± 0.108 | 0.01 |
| Lactobacillus crispatus | 0.149 ± 0.045 | 0.033 ± 0.008 | 0.01 |
| Desulfovibrio vulgaris | 0.146 ± 0.030 | 0.169 ± 0.017 | 0.05 |
| Lactobacillus helveticus | 0.114 ± 0.033 | 0.021 ± 0.005 | 0.00 |
| Cecal luminal fungal species | |||
| Botryotinia fuckeliana | 10.049 ± 3.700 | 2.079 ± 0.773 | 0.01 |
| Schizosaccharomyces pombe | 3.119 ± 0.634 | 6.722 ± 0.833 | 0.01 |
| Nectria haematococca | 0.762 ± 0.286 | 2.010 ± 0.397 | 0.02 |
| Aspergillus niger | 0.624 ± 0.158 | 1.455 ± 0.298 | 0.03 |
| Malassezia globosa | 0.347 ± 0.192 | 2.148 ± 0.535 | < 0.01 |
P-values were determined by Mann–Whitney test.