Table 3 Species level profiling for a ‘ladder’ synthetic community

Staphylococcus aureus

0.362

0.631

Streptococcus pyogenes

0.320

0.148

Helicobacter pylori

0.160

0.096

Fusobacterium nucleatum

0.080

0.037

Bifidobacterium longum

0.040

0.042

Klebsiella pneumoniae

0.020

0.009

Salmonella typhimurium

0.010

0.022

Staphylococcus epidermidis

0.005

0.007

Neisseria subflava

0.002

0.004

Faecalibacterium prausnitzii

0.001

0.002