Efficacy of medium-chain fatty acid salts distilled from coconut oil against two enteric pathogen challenges in weanling piglets

Table 5 Ln changes in taxa promoted by DIC supplementation in the Salmonella and ETEC F4 trials

Taxonomic rank	Taxon	Ln change^a (DIC vs. CTR)	Adjusted P^b
Salmonella trial
Phylum	Fibrobacteres	2.229	0.019
Family	cand. Barnesiellaceae	-4.499	0.003
	Fibrobacteraceae	2.229	0.024
	Enterobacteriaceae	- 1.746	0.157
	Spirochaetaceae	1.326	0.192
	Alcaligenaceae	0.876	0.192
Genus	Dialister	- 0.690	0.000
	Fibrobacter	2.225	0.033
	Lachnobacterium	- 3.219	0.035
	Butyrivibrio	- 1.251	0.095
ETEC F4 trial
Family	Veillonellaceae	0.363	0.136
	Oxalobacteraceae	- 0.804	0.151
	Deferribacteraceae	1.915	0.151
	Turicibacteraceae	- 1.384	0.176
Genus	Dialister	5.981	0.008
	Lachnospira	- 0.841	0.069
	Megasphaera	1.137	0.149
	Coprococcus	- 1.051	0.149
	Oxalobacter	- 0.804	0.173
	Mucispirillum	1.915	0.173
	Turicibacter	- 1.384	0.183

^aPositive values and negative values indicate higher and lower abundance, respectively, in treated animals. Taxa are sorted by level of significance (from higher to lower). The presented differences are based only on taxa detected in at least half of the samples per diet
^bAdjusted P value < 0.20

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