Abundance of Enterobacteriaceae in the colon mucosa in diverticular disease

Table 3 Mucosal count of Enterobacteriaceae and gut microbiota diversity and humoral inflammatory biomarkers

	Diverticular disease, n = 16	No diverticula, n = 35	P value
Enterobacteriaceae, log10 16S rRNA genes/g	9.27 (7.34-10.04)	7.76 (7.13-8.76)	0.043
Shannon-Wiener index	2.02 (1.80-2.36)	2.30 (1.94-2.48)	0.401
Simpson’s index	0.80 (0.75-0.86)	0.82 (0.76-0.88)	0.383
T-RF, n	17.0 (11.0-21.0)	17.0 (12.5-22.0)	0.776
P-CRP, mg/L	4.40 (1.38-5.80)	1.70 (0.60-6.00)	0.346
B-leukocytes, 109/L	8.40 (6.38-9.98)	8.10 (5.90-8.85)	0.466
B-thrombocytes, 109/L	289 (219-334)	219 (186-266)	0.149
P-albumin, g/L	36 (34-42)	36 (34-40)	0.819

Gut microbiota was analyzed in feces, and inflammatory biomarkers in blood or plasma. Data are presented as median (interquartile range). Mann-Whitney U test. P-value < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. B: Blood; P: Plasma; T-RF: Terminal restriction fragments.