Standard rectal swabs as a surrogate sample for gut microbiome monitoring in intensive care

BMC Microbiology

Table 3 Differences in relative abundance for key OTUs between faeces and swabs

	Enterobacterales		Pseudomonas spp		C. difficile		Bifidobacteriales		Bacteroidales		Clostridiales		C. albicans
	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs	Faeces	Swabs
Average	1.42	1.39	0.25	0.20	0.09	0.12	1.08	1.49	5.42	4.91	4.54	4.75	0.46	0.37
Min	0.04	0.14	0.02	0.02	0	0	0.02	0.02	0.04	0.16	0.13	0.27	0	0
Max	5.15	5.34	1.49	0.84	0.40	0.53	2.91	4.95	7.47	6.76	5.94	6.49	7.53	5.98
P (rank test)	0.87		0.73		0.26		0.48		0.07		0.65		0.77
p (ANOVA)	0.96		0.64		0.46		0.29		0.42		0.68		0.86

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