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This may be significant since the immune response would be expected to play a major role in clearance of microbes from the airways, and therefore exerts a selective pressure on the microbial community.

An interesting trend was observed in the transition of microbial contaminants from the hide (BH) to the carcase groups (BC1, BC2, and BC3) in abattoir B, which was not observed in abattoir A.

We note also that the overlap between the ArcZ and Fur regulons was nearly significant ( P adj = 0.069).

Abstract Antimicrobial resistance against enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAEC), an emerging food-borne pathogen, has been observed in an increasing trend recently.

The chemotactic response to lactate showed a trend of first increasing and then decreasing to a higher level than the original level.

Concerning PH, even though exhibiting different heights in the control situation, lower in Duilio and higher in Marco Aurelio, both cultivars showed a similar positive influence from biochar treatment; indeed, the height increases resulting from B1− in a sharper fashion ( p < 0.003 in V1 and p < 0.004 in V2) and B2− in a stronger fashion ( p < 0.000 in both V1 and V2) were highly significant ( Figure 4 , black bars).

For all statistical analyses, P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant while P < 0.1 was considered marginally significant, and all plots were considered independent replicates.

Therefore, copper alloy surfaces immersed in natural seawater may be significant sources of new functional potential and vital environments to explore heavy metal resistance mechanisms.

The replication parameter did not produce any significant difference in the dependent variables, and the interaction between replication and treatment was weakly significant only for two parameters.

Interestingly, although the abundance of Prevotella was found to increase with age, OTUs belonging to genus Prevotella (OTU_2, OTU_3 and OTU_540650), which was enriched in the UR cohort, were found to show an increasing trend with age, while OTU_33 (belonging to the same genus), enriched in the TR cohort, was observed to have a decreasing trend with age.

In urban areas, there is an increasing trend of increase in non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, immune and metabolic diseases (including obesity and diabetes), and associated health issues.

These homologies were barely significant with the 10 best hits, identity percentages in amino acids varying between 24.7 and 23.9%, query coverages between 24 and 25%, and e-values ranging between 2e-15 and 3e-15 ( Supplementary File S1 ).

Linezolid monotherapy resulted in uniform and highly significant reductions of MRSA densities in all the target tissues of mice infected with cfr -negative MRSA isolates 161400 and HYXC4.

P -value < 0.05 and < 0.01 indicated statistically significant and extremely significant, respectively.

The estimation of the different allelic frequencies revealed a highly significant deficit of heterozygosity for the four species.

Butyrate was the most susceptible SCFA in intestinal microecology of premature infants and showed a trend of fluctuation.

The diversity of gut microbiota in premature infants of BM group showed an increasing trend, while the diversity of gut microbiota in FM group premature infants was almost unchanged, which was not completely consistent with the previous research results ( Cong et al., 2017 ).

The ability of intimin to also bind β–integrins may be significant in this regard ( Phillips and Frankel, 2000 ).

coli strains from a pediatric patient with a history of travel to the Far East countries strongly highlight an increasing trend and risk of importation from such areas.

While there was a clear trend suggesting that P. aeruginosa strains were more pathogenic than K. pneumoniae which in turn was more pathogenic than A. baumannii , there was strain to strain variation not just in terms of ability to kill C. elegans but also in terms of food aversion and clearance.

Although a clear trend was observed, statistically significant differences were only found between the Pb-exposed group and F. prausnitzii - or O. ruminantium- treated groups for acetic acid and butyric acid levels and total SCFA content ( Figure 6 , p < 0.05).

Despite a decreased biomass of DSE hyphae with enhanced Cd concentrations, the accumulation of Cd in the DSE hyphae tended to show an increasing trend.

vagum showed a trend to increase but then subsequently declined after reaching a maximum of 153.6% at 30 mg Cd/L.

Also, a significant decrease of Faecalibacterium in patients with CD is often described as highly significant ( Sokol et al., 2008 , 2016 ; Rajca et al., 2014 ; Takahashi et al., 2016 ).

We also did not include in our analysis the potential contribution of groundwater, even though this might be significant.