Enterococcus faecium NCIMB 10415 administration improves the intestinal health and immunity in neonatal piglets infected by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli K88

Table 5 Effect of E. faecium on the relative abundance of the top 10 microbial phylum in the colon of piglets challenged with ETEC K88

Items	-ETEC		+ETEC		P-value
Items	CON	PRO	CON	PRO	PRO	ETEC	PRO×ETEC
Proteobacteria	15.91 ± 2.91	12.06 ± 2.40	18.38 ± 1.41	17.81 ± 2.91	0.23	0.07	0.48
Bacteroidetes	47.63 ± 3.45	44.04 ± 3.53	47.42 ± 4.38	42.27 ± 5.95	0.29	0.68	0.75
Firmicutes	24.40 ± 4.19	33.46 ± 8.34	19.03 ± 1.80	29.66 ± 7.07	0.37	0.52	0.95
Fusobacteria	11.25 ± 4.60	9.06 ± 5.56	14.73 ± 5.02	9.29 ± 6.97	0.11	0.98	0.67
Verrucomicrobia	0.01 ± 0.01	0.01 ± 0.00	0.02 ± 0.02	0.25 ± 0.23	0.05	0.82	0.53
Planctomycetes	0.04 ± 0.02	0.69 ± 0.64	0.06 ± 0.04	0.11 ± 0.08	0.24	0.14	0.68
Lentisphaerae	0.51 ± 0.30	0.29 ± 0.09	0.13 ± 0.11	0.25 ± 0.13	0.23	0.11	0.43
Spirochaetes	0.03 ± 0.02	0.14 ± 0.10	0.03 ± 0.02	0.12 ± 0.06	0.92	0.59	0.64
Euryarchaeota	0.08 ± 0.04	0.07 ± 0.05	0.07 ± 0.06	0.10 ± 0.05	0.42	0.98	0.58
Actinobacteria	0.07 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	0.04 ± 0.01	0.08 ± 0.03	0.29	0.47	0.59

Data are presented as means ± SE (n = 6)
-ETEC, infusing the essential medium; +ETEC, infusing the Escherichia coli; CON, control group; PRO, Enterococcus faecium-supplemented group

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