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From: Preventive Trichuris suis ova (TSO) treatment protects immunocompetent rabbits from DSS colitis but may be detrimental under conditions of immunosuppression

Figure 4

TSO partially prevents the DSS induced shift in gut microbiota composition. Microbiota richness in caecum (A) and faeces (B) as assessed by abundance based coverage estimator, (ACE). PCoA ordination based on Bray-Curtis dissimilarities show shifts in community composition for caecal (C) and faecal samples (D) in response to DSS treatment in immunocompetent animals. The percentage of variation explained is given in parentheses, Increasing distance in two-dimensional space represents increasingly dissimilar communities.*P < 0.05, one-sided p-Value, Mann-Whitney test relative to vehicle water control. Dots represent single animals n = 7–8 animals per group, bars represent mean ± SEM.

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