Table 2. Differences in the abundance of common microbiota taxa in internal body and external body samples.
| Taxa | Average (± SE) abundance (%) | df | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internal body (n = 76) | External body (n = 77) | |||
| Bacillus | 7.30 (1.76) | 3.92 (1.26) | 136.26 | 0.0605 |
| Staphylococcus | 5.18 (0.84) | 4.48 (0.75) | 148.65 | 0.2678 |
| Enterobacter | 7.16 (2.23) | 1.65 (1.04) | 106.22 | 0.0137* |
| Corynebacterium | 3.27 (0.67) | 3.54 (0.71) | 150.69 | 0.3888 |
| Kocuria | 1.61 (0.49) | 4.06 (1.06) | 106.58 | 0.0193* |
| Providencia | 2.63 (1.68) | 2.82 (1.52) | 149.26 | 0.4674 |
| Sphingomonas | 0.42 (0.16) | 4.61 (1.32) | 78.31 | 0.0011* |
| p__OD1;c__ZB2 | 1.31 (0.23) | 3.33 (0.59) | 98.59 | 0.0009* |
| Micrococcus | 2.03 (0.40) | 2.30 (0.65) | 127.57 | 0.3658 |
| Acinetobacter | 1.83 (0.40) | 2.29 (0.54) | 139.40 | 0.2470 |
| Bradyrhizobium | 0.20 (0.10) | 3.66 (0.94) | 77.66 | 0.0002* |
| Elizabethkingia | 1.33 (0.51) | 2.22 (0.83) | 125.41 | 0.1808 |
| Pseudomonas | 1.46 (0.43) | 1.99 (0.53) | 144.93 | 0.2178 |
| f__Alcaligenaceae | 2.88 (1.65) | 0.18 (0.18) | 76.84 | 0.0547 |
| Delftia | 0.90 (0.04) | 2.64 (0.96) | 76.32 | 0.0050 |
| f__Enterobacteriaceae | 1.71 (0.45) | 0.55 (0.23) | 112.79 | 0.0123* |
| Propionibacterium | 1.00 (0.17) | 1.21 (0.38) | 104.83 | 0.3077 |
| Proteus | 1.75 (1.35) | 0.33 (0.23) | 79.46 | 0.1519 |