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A highly significant difference in infection rate ( p = 0.005) was observed as only 5/40 patients (12.5%) in the Synbiotic 2000-treated group suffered infections (4 wounds and one urinary tract infection) vs. 16/40 (40%) in the fiber-only group (6 wound infections, 5 peritonitis, 4 chest infections, 2 sepsis, and one of each of urinary tract infection, cholangitis and empyema)— Table 5 .

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Although it did not reach statistical significance, a reduced incidence of infection-induced mortality was also reported ( p = 0.145) [ 50 ]. 7.

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