Table 1.
Characteristics of infants in the four groups of this study.
Fig 1.
Estimates of alpha diversity for BF-IAP, BF-C, MF-IAP and MF-C samples at day 7.
One outlier has been identified in BF-IAP group regarding the evaluation of Simpson and Shannon indices, indicated with a circle.
Fig 2.
Relative abundances of bacterial phyla in BF-IAP, BF-C, MF-IAP and MF-C faecal samples.
Fig 3.
Relative abundances of bacterial genera in BF-IAP, BF-C, MF-IAP and MF-C faecal samples.
Other category contains genera present at <1% of relative abundance.
Fig 4.
Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA) of unweighted UniFrac distances.
Percent of dataset variability explained by each principal coordinate is shown in brackets in axis titles. Percent of dataset variability explained by each principal coordinate is shown in brackets in axis titles a) BF-IAP infants at day 7 in red, BF-C infants at day 7 in blue. b) BF-IAP infants at day 30 in red, BF-C infants at day 30 in blue. c) BF-IAP infants at day 7 in red, MF-IAP infants at day 7 in blue. d) BF-IAP infants at day 30 in red, MF-IAP infants at day 30 in blue.
Fig 5.
Box plots showing qPCR analysis of selected microbial groups expressed in log CFU per gram of faecal sample.
Boxes show the median, 25th and 75th percentiles. Corrected p-values of < 0.05 and 0.01 are denoted by * and **, respectively.