Faecal and mucosal microbiota in patients with functional gastrointestinal disorders: Correlation with toll-like receptor 2/toll-like receptor 4 expression

Table 1 Comparison of the richness and diversity of mucosa-associated microbiota and luminal microbiota

	ACE	Chao	Shannon	Simpson
MAM	160.72 ± 51.62	151.56 ± 48.63	2.29 ± 1.24	0.33 ± 0.32
LM	195.50 ± 42.04	188.65 ± 42.70	2.901 ± 0.54	0.13 ± 0.07
P value	0.004b	0.002b	0.012a	0.001b

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01, MAM vs LM. MAM: Mucosa-associated microbiota; LM: Luminal microbiota.