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Table 2 Most abundant microbial species in the prostate tissue of patients who had PCa

From: Microbiota of the prostate tumor environment investigated by whole-transcriptome profiling

Species

Total reads across all samples (n = 106)

Relative proportions (% of all reads)

Mean number of reads per sample

Standard deviation

Enterobacter hormaechei*

674,201

23.9

6360.3

2749.8

Streptococcus pneumoniae*

195,368

6.9

1843.1

1185.9

Acinetobacter baumannii*

181,489

6.4

1712.1

2856.3

Mycobacterium sp.*

164,496

5.8

1551.8

1174.1

Salmonella enterica

153,667

5.4

1449.6

1078.6

Escherichia coli*

104,243

3.7

983.42

913.3

Campylobacter jejuni

102,543

3.6

967.3

515.7

Clostridioides difficile

102,525

3.6

1235.2

4082.6

Mycobacterium abscessus*

98,079

3.4

925.2

476.9

Bacillus cereus*

33,484

1.1

1455.8

883.4

Other

1,002,742

35.6

9459.8

5067.9

  1. *Genera of these species are known to be common contaminants in sequencing based microbiome studies