Table 3 Alpha-biodiversity indices of bacterial assemblages in human faecal samples collected from the healthy subjects and patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis (PPMS)

From: Primary progressive multiple sclerosis in a Russian cohort: relationship with gut bacterial diversity

Index	PPMS	Healthy	p-value
Richness^a	163	129	0.03
Chao1	231	177	0.10
Berger-Parker	0.13	0.16	0.03
Simpson	0.95	0.94	0.11
Dominance	0.05	0.06	0.11
Buzas-Gibson	0.020	0.015	0.12
Equitability	0.75	0.73	0.22
Jost	28	22	0.11
Shannon	3.8	3.6	0.14
Robbins	0.35	0.31	0.12
Flyvbjerg	165	117	0.05
Mirror	272	219	0.04

^a Rows with significant (P ≤ 0.05) differences between the values are highlighted in bold

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