Table 3: Baseline and post feeding fecal micr ota counts (log10 per g wet stool) excreted by the children classified according to dietary supplements.
Six children per group; Means ± standard error; nd= not determined; Mean values are significantly different (P < 0.05), if within the same row they don’t share the same alphabet (ANOVA, Duncan test).
| Control | Placebo | Probiotic yoghurt | Sour soya |
| Fecal microbiota | Day 0 | Day 21 | Day 0 | Day 21 | Day 0 | Day 21 | Day 0 | Day 21 |
| Bacteroides | 7.6 ab | 7.39 a | 4.88 bc | 5.87 bc | 6.91 ab | 2.33 cd | 4.88 bc | nd |
| ± 0.05 | ± 0.05 | ± 1.54 | ± 1.19 | ± 0.22 | ± 1.22 | ± 1.54 | |
| Bifido bacterium | 7.9 c | 7.63 c | 7.84 cd | 7.56 cd | 7.79 d | 8.83 a | 7.87 cd | 7.83b |
| ± 0.04 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.04 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.05 | ± 0.05 |
| Enterobacteriaceae | 7.21 a | 7.37 a | 7.1 a | 4.82 ab | 6.93 a | 1.86 c | 4.83 ab | 2.97 bc |
| ± 0.17 | ± 0.07 | ± 0.12 | ± 1.52 | ± 0.21 | ± 1.18 | ± 1.53 | ± 1.33 |
| Lactobacilli | 8.27 b | 7.93 b | 8.13 cd | 7.83 c | 8.09 cd | 8.92 a | 8.07 d | 8.93 a |
| ± 0.04 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.20 |
| Yeasts & Molds | 4.11 cd | 4.11 cd | 4.17 b | 4.16 bc | 4.12cd | 4.09d | 4.1bcd | 5.0 a |
| ± 0.04 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.01 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 |
| Total anaerobes | 9.03 | 8.56 | 9,00 | 8.53 | 9.02 | 9.72 | 9.06 | 9.73 |
| ± 0.03 | ± 0.03 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 | ± 0.02 |