Evaluation of fecal sample collection methods for feline gut microbiome profiling: fecal loop vs. litter box.

Front Microbiol · 2024 · PMC11127567 · PMID 38800749

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However, there were higher variations in host and viral sequence contamination detected in FL samples, with marginal significance ( p = 0.05, Levene’s test of homogeneity of variance).

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did not reach statistical significancep = 0.11not close (p > 0.1)

The level of feline sequence contamination was 8-fold higher in the FL group (5.290% [−3.306–13.886%, 95% CI]) than in the LB groups (0.631% [−0.073–1.337% 95%, CI]), but the difference did not reach statistical significance ( p = 0.11, Wilcoxon signed-rank test; Figure 1B ).

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