Figure 1From: Characterization of bacterial biota in the distal esophagus of Japanese patients with reflux esophagitis and Barrett’s esophagus qPCR analysis of total bacterial load in mucosal biopsy samples. Mean results are shown for each patient cohort. Error bars denote standard deviation from the mean. Total bacterial load was not significantly different between the groups (p > 0.1; Student’s t-test).Back to article page