First bloodstream infection caused by Prevotella copri in a heart failure elderly patient with Prevotella-dominated gut microbiota: a case report

Table 1 Most relatively abundant bacteria on order, family, genus, and species level identified in the patient’s fecal sample

Taxa	% abundance	Taxa	% abundance
Order		Genus
Bacteroidales	34.114	Prevotella	15.253
Clostridiales	27.590	Faecalibacterium	8.215
Selenomonadales	7.493	Dialister	6.372
		Parabacteroides	3.849
		Bacteroides	3.750
Family		Species
Prevotellaceae	19.024	Prevotella copri	6.133
Ruminococcaceae	16.519	Dialister succinatiphilus	5.869
Lachnospiraceae	9.157	Faecalibacterium prausnitzii	3.180
Porphyromonadaceae	6.999	Parabacteroides distasonis	2.488
Veillonellaceae	6.758	Prevotella sp. (DJF RP53)	2.050
Bacteroidaceae	3.750

The listed taxa belong to the Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes phyla, whose relative abundances were 37.054% and 34.664%, respectively. Unlisted species include two other Prevotella sp. (BI-42 and DJF B112), whose relative abundances were 1.504% and 0.836%, respectively

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