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Table 3 Antibiotic exposure for cohort

From: The bacterial density of clinical rectal swabs is highly variable, correlates with sequencing contamination, and predicts patient risk of extraintestinal infection

16S rRNA gene copies/sample ± SE (log scale)

 

Subjects treated N (proportion)

No treatment

Received antibiotic

P value

Vancomycin

35 (0.3)

15.18 ± 0.39

14.81 ± 0.53

0.58

Metronidazole

22 (0.19)

15.03 ± 0.37

15.21 ± 0.55

0.79

Piperacillin-tazobactam

20 (0.17)

15.46 ± 0.34

13.15 ± 0.70

**0.006

Cefepime

18 (0.16)

14.95 ± 0.35

15.70 ± 0.72

0.35

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Microbiome

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