Overgrowth of Lactobacillus in gastric cancer

Table 3 Variations in relative abundance of Lactobacillus from category III studies

Ref.	HC	SG	AG	IM	IN	GC	Lactobacillus	Fold change (GC vs SG/CG)	LDA score
Aviles-Jimenez et al[27]		5		5		5	+
Eun et al[28]		10		10		11	-
Li et al[29]	8	9		9		7	-
Coker et al[30]		21	23	17		20	+
Hsieh et al[11]		9		7		11	+	81.0/91.1
Wang et al[14]	30	21		27	25	29	+	22.0	4.1
Dang et al[31]		17		13		30	-
Gantuya et al[32]	20	20	40	40		48	+	17.9	4.4

HC: Healthy controls; SG: Superficial gastritis; AG: Atrophy gastritis; IM: Intestinal metaplasia; IN: Intraepithelial neoplasia; GC: Gastric cancer.