Comparative analysis of the lung microbiota in patients with respiratory infections, tuberculosis, and lung cancer: A preliminary study/Experiment 3

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Needs review

Curated date: 2025/07/09

Curator: Nuerteye

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Subjects

Location of subjects
China
Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.
Homo sapiens
Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology
Lung Pulmo,Lung,lung
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Lung cancer , Pneumonia alveolar cell carcinoma,cancer of lung,lung cancer,lung cancer, protection against,lung neoplasm,malignant lung neoplasm,malignant lung tumor,malignant neoplasm of lung,malignant neoplasm of the lung,malignant tumor of lung,malignant tumor of the lung,Nonsmall cell lung cancer,Lung cancer,acute pneumonia,chest infection due to pneumonia,pneumonia,Pneumonia (disorder),Pneumonia (disorder) [Ambiguous],Pneumonia due to other specified organism,Pneumonia due to other specified organisms,Pneumonia due to other specified organisms (disorder),Pneumonia NOS,Pneumonia NOS (disorder),pneumonia with infectious disease,Pneumonitis,Pneumonitis (disorder),Pneumonia
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
community-acquired pneumonia (CAP)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Lung cancer
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
49
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
8
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
No antibiotics, antitumor drugs in the previous 1 month.

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
V3-V4
Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance
Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
relative abundances
Statistical test
LEfSe
Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
0.05
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
2

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
increased
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
increased

Signature 1

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/07/09

Curator: Nuerteye

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Source: Figure 3

Description: Taxonomic differences of the lung microbiota among patients with primary pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), newly diagnosed lung cancer (LC), and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). LEfSe identified the most differentially abundant taxa between the two groups.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Lung cancer

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Acidaminococcaceae
Acidaminococcales
Actinomyces
Aeromonadales
Alistipes
Anaerobiospirillum
Atopobiaceae
Betaproteobacteria
Carnobacteriaceae
Cellulomonadaceae
Comamonadaceae
Coriobacteriales
Coriobacteriia
Dialister
Eikenella
Enhydrobacter
Flavobacteriales
Fusobacteriaceae
Fusobacterium
Intrasporangiaceae
Janibacter
Lawsonella
Lawsonellaceae
Mailhella
Marmoricola
Mediterranea
Megamonas
Neisseria
Neisseriaceae
Neisseriales
Nocardioidaceae
Olsenella
Phascolarctobacterium
Rikenellaceae
Romboutsia
Succinivibrionaceae
Tropheryma
Clostridiales Incertae Sedis XIIIClostridiales Incertae Sedis XIII
MarseillaMarseilla

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Signature 2

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/07/09

Curator: Nuerteye

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Source: Figure 3

Description: Taxonomic differences of the lung microbiota among patients with primary pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), newly diagnosed lung cancer (LC), and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). LEfSe identified the most differentially abundant taxa between the two groups.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Lung cancer

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Lautropia
Phenylobacterium

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye