Fig 1.
Study layout.
Fig 2.
MAP positivity of tested samples of patients with gastrointestinal diseases.
Table 1.
Positivity to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in samples of recruited patients with gastrointestinal diseases in a GI centre Sudan (July 2019-Feb 2020).
Table 2.
Logistic regression model of factors associated with positivity to Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP+) in samples of patients with gastrointestinal diseases.
Fig 3.
Phylum level faecal microbiome composition in MAP+ and MAP- groups.
Fig 4.
Heat map of the relative abundances of the most common species in the microbiome data of MAP+ and MAP- groups of patients with gastrointestinal diseases.
Fig 5.
Diversity indices between MAP+ and MAP- samples.
Alpha (richness), gamma (total diversity) and beta (overlap; [gamma/alpha]-1) were included.
Table 3.
Average abundance of bacterial species in faecal samples of patients with gastrointestinal problems grouped as negative or positive for Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis.