Effects of Early Transplantation of the Faecal Microbiota from Tibetan Pigs on the Gut Development of DSS-Challenged Piglets

Table 6

Effects of DSS challenge and FMT on the caecal and colonic E. coli, Lactobacillus spp., Bifidobacterium spp., Bacillus spp., and total bacterial counts in caecal and colonic digesta of piglets (log(copies/g)).

Items	DSS-		DSS+		SEM	value
	Micro-	Micro+	Micro-	Micro+		Micro	DSS
Cecum
Total bacteria	11.503	11.422	11.481	11.422	0.028	0.150	0.665	0.958
Bacillus spp.	9.777	9.898	9.798	9.943	0.026	0.011	0.493	0.805
Lactobacillus spp.	8.345^b	8.965^a	8.145^b	8.707^ab	0.146	0.001	0.150	0.851
E. coli	8.574^ab	8.157^b	9.078^a	8.088^b	0.147	0.001	0.252	0.134
Bifidobacterium spp.	8.021	8.006	7.898	8.007	0.037	0.549	0.440	0.434
Colon
Total bacteria	11.532^ab	11.670^a	11.423^b	11.736^a	0.037	0.001	0.706	0.137
Bacillus spp.	9.933	10.066	9.836	9.939	0.037	0.113	0.131	0.833
Lactobacillus spp.	8.475^bc	9.388^a	7.878^c	8.731^ab	0.181	<0.001	0.003	0.875
E. coli	8.740^ab	8.153^b	9.507^a	8.274^b	0.131	<0.001	0.007	0.072
Bifidobacterium spp.	7.629	7.931	7.798	7.801	0.052	0.142	0.848	0.152