Lower Bifidobacteria counts in both duodenal mucosa-associated and fecal microbiota in irritable bowel syndrome patients

Table 2 FISH analysis of the composition of the fecal microbiota of HS, IBS patients and IBS subgroups

Probe	HS	IBS	IBS-A	IBS-D	IBS-C
Fprau 645	12.0 ± 2.1	9.2 ± 0.80	10.6 ± 1.6	8.2 ± 1.4	8.6 ± 1.2
Erec 482	16.6 ± 5.4	11.7 ± 2.5	6.4 ± 1.3	7.1 ± 1.2	20.5 ± 5.8
Bif 164	8.3 ± 1.9	4.2 ± 1.3a	1.7 ± 0.63	7.9 ± 5.2	4.5 ± 0.94
Lab 158	4.7 ± 0.88	4.0 ± 0.78	2.0 ± 0.38	4.0 ± 1.7	6.0 ± 1.5
Chis 150	2.4 ± 0.43	2.1 ± 0.57	2.0 ± 0.61	1.6 ± 0.37	2.4 ± 1.4
Bac 303	1.5 ± 0.89	3.6 ± 1.5	0.41 ± 0.21	4.4 ± 3.3	5.7 ± 2.8
Cld73	0.88 ± 0.28	0.43 ± 0.09	0.61 ± 0.16	0.32 ± 0.15	0.21 ± 0.08
Clit 135	0.39 ± 0.10	0.09 ± 0.03a	0.06 ± 0.03	0.09 ± 0.04	0.11 ± 0.06
Sum	44.4 ± 6.85	32.1 ± 3.27	22.7 ± 2.30	28.3 ± 5.90	43.5 ± 5.89

^aP < 0.05 vs HS. Data are expressed as percentage, mean ± SE.