Number of patients with positive polymerase chain reaction for anaerobic bacterial groups or species in biopsies from ileum, caecum and rectum
| Controls | CD | UC | IC | LNH | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | C | R | I | C | R | I | C | R | I | C | R | I | C | R | |
| C, caecum, CD, Crohn’s disease; I, ileum, IC, indeterminate colitis; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; R, rectum; UC, ulcerative colitis. | |||||||||||||||
| Data are expressed as the number of patients with positive PCR for each target bacterium to the total number of patients in each group. | |||||||||||||||
| Total patients (n) | 8 | 6 | 6 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
| Bifidobacterium spp | 8 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| B adolescentis | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| B longum | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| Prevotella spp | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| Clostridium coccoides group | 8 | 6 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
| C clostriiforme | 7 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 3 |
| Bacteroides fragilis group | 7 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| B thetaiotaomicron | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| B distasonis | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
| B vulgatus | 7 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 |
| E biforme | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| F prausnitzii | 3 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 4 |
| P productus | 6 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 4 | 4 |
| L acidophilus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |