TABLE 3.
Distribution of the 74 butyrate-producing strains isolated in this study in each of the 18 PCR-RFLP ribotypes obtained with the restriction enzyme AluI
| Individual | Sample | No. of butyrate-producing strains from the indicated isolation in RFLP group:
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Total | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | |||
| Infant | 1 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 17 | ||||||||||||||
| Adult A | 1 | 12 | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 24 | |||||||||||
| Adult B | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||