Effect of probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum Dad-13 powder consumption on the gut microbiota and intestinal health of overweight adults

Table 8 Gut microbiota composition based on genus

Phylum	Genus	Probiotic-treated			Placebo
		Baseline, mean (%) ± SD	Ingestion, mean (%) ± SD	P value	Baseline, mean (%) ± SD	Ingestion, mean (%) ± SD	P value
Firmicutes	Faecalibacterium	11.43 ± 5.03	10.94 ± 4.21	0.614	15.30 ± 7.07	11.82 ± 5.50	0.01a
	Coprococcus	7.53 ± 3.55	6.23 ± 1.85	0.037a	7.34 ± 3.71	5.82 ± 2.67	0.116
	Other	7.63 ± 5.05	8.22 ± 4.15	0.491	6.03 ± 4.13	8.40 ± 4.56	0.012a
	Ruminococcus	4.49 ± 4.06	3.69 ± 2.90	0.271	3.80 ± 3.84	3.70 ± 4.79	0.572
	Roseburia	1.36 ± 1.31	1.54 ± 1.10	0.072b	1.49 ± 1.55	2.04 ± 1.28	0.037a
	Clostridium	0.16 ± 0.22	0.16 ± 0.27	0.829	0.25 ± 0.53	0.35 ± 0.49	0.202
	Paenibacillus	0.01 ± 0.01	0.00 ± 0.01	0.1	0.03 ± 0.06	0.00 ± 0.01	0.002a
Bacteroidetes	Prevotella	14.56 ± 11.57	19.25 ± 13.03	0.066b	14.15 ± 13.69	14.28 ± 14.13	0.75
	Bacteroides	3.78 ± 5.43	5.57 ± 8.21	0.019a	5.59 ± 9.97	10.30 ± 13.83	0.04a
Actino-bacteria	Bifidobacterium	3.38 ± 4.96	2.74 ± 4.01	0.6	3.07 ± 3.95	2.71 ± 2.91	0.957
	Collinsella	2.02 ± 1.40	1.52 ± 0.94	0.069b	2.00 ± 1.80	1.51 ± 0.98	0.271
	Brevibacterium	0.01 ± 0.01	0.00 ± 0.01	0.307	0.03 ± 0.07	0.01 ± 0.02	0.082b
Proteo-bacteria	Succinivibrio	2.19 ± 4.51	1.44 ± 3.37	0.548	2.06 ± 5.29	2.51 ± 6.89	0.534
	Phyllobacterium	0.02 ± 0.04	0.02 ± 0.02	0.037a	0.01 ± 0.03	0.01 ± 0.03	0.167
	Sphingomonas	0.02 ± 0.03	0.02 ± 0.02	0.75	0.01 ± 0.03	0.01 ± 0.03	0.833
Verrucomicrobia	Akkermansia	0.13 ± 0.56	0.04 ± 0.18	0.028a	0.35 ± 1.64	0.02 ± 0.07	0.024a

^aPaired t-test with significance level of 5% (P < 0.05).

^bSignificance level 10% (P < 0.1).