TABLE 4.
Relative abundances of significant (P ≤ 0.05) colon-associated bacterial and fungal species detected 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.
| Distal colon luminal microbial species | |||
| Mean% abundance ± SEM |
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| Species | HM | MF | P-value |
| Bacteroides stercoris | 2.435 ± 0.581 | 0.448 ± 0.092 | < 0.01 |
| Bacteroides capillosus | 1.159 ± 0.147 | 1.768 ± 0.197 | 0.04 |
| Faecalibacterium prausnitzii | 1.068 ± 0.127 | 2.015 ± 0.303 | 0.01 |
| Bacteroides finegoldii | 0.322 ± 0.028 | 0.231 ± 0.021 | 0.02 |
| Acidaminococcus fermentans | 0.212 ± 0.014 | 0.307 ± 0.041 | 0.03 |
| Pedobacter heparinus | 0.209 ± 0.019 | 0.145 ± 0.013 | 0.01 |
| Bacteroides sp. 9 1 42FAA | 0.201 ± 0.013 | 0.147 ± 0.012 | 0.01 |
| Slackia heliotrinireducens | 0.188 ± 0.016 | 0.236 ± 0.016 | 0.05 |
| Capnocytophaga ochracea | 0.181 ± 0.025 | 0.110 ± 0.013 | 0.02 |
| Fibrobacter succinogenes | 0.160 ± 0.007 | 0.188 ± 0.010 | 0.04 |
| Bacteroides sp. 1 1 14 | 0.147 ± 0.049 | 0.061 ± 0.007 | < 0.01 |
| Spirochaeta smaragdinae | 0.120 ± 0.027 | 0.211 ± 0.042 | 0.04 |
| Bifidobacterium longum | 0.113 ± 0.009 | 0.143 ± 0.009 | 0.03 |
| Distal colon luminal fungal species | |||
| Yarrowia lipolytica | 7.920 ± 1.061 | 5.010 ± 0.564 | 0.04 |
| Saccharomyces cerevisiae | 2.844 ± 0.563 | 4.908 ± 0.623 | 0.04 |
| Ustilago maydis | 2.064 ± 0.354 | 3.732 ± 0.462 | 0.03 |
| Nectria haematococca | 1.004 ± 0.252 | 2.352 ± 0.328 | 0.01 |
| Aspergillus terreus | 0.725 ± 0.231 | 1.534 ± 0.277 | 0.04 |
| Laccaria bicolor | 0.502 ± 0.216 | 1.943 ± 0.464 | 0.03 |
| Malassezia globosa | 0.502 ± 0.200 | 1.176 ± 0.256 | 0.05 |
P-values were determined by Mann–Whitney test.