Microbiome Alteration in Lung Tissues of Tuberculosis Patients Revealed by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing and Immune-Related Transcriptional Profile Identified by Transcriptome Sequencing/Experiment 1

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Curated date: 2025/07/20

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
Pulmonary tuberculosis lung TB,lung tuberculosis,pulmonary TB,pulmonary tuberculosis,Tuberculosis, Pulmonary,Pulmonary tuberculosis
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
patients with Non-tuberculosis
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
patients with tuberculosis
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Mtb-positive in the bacteriological examination, including sputum smear or sputum culture, mNGS, acid-fast staining, T-spot, adenosine deaminase, PCR, and interferon-gamma release assay; clinical manifestations such as constitutional symptoms and imaging manifestations; improvement following initiation of anti-TB therapy.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
25
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
110

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
WMS
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
Not specified
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
unchanged
Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
unchanged
Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
unchanged
Inverse Simpson Modification of Simpsons index D as 1/D to obtain high values in datasets of high diversity and vice versa
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Signature 1

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Curated date: 2025/07/20

Curator: Nuerteye

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Source: Figure 2C

Description: Microbial distribution in lung tissues of TB and NonTB patients. LEfSe analyses were performed to determine the microbial features with significant differences in the relative abundance.

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in patients with tuberculosis

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Pseudomonas pharmacofabricaePseudomonas pharmacofabricae
Enterobius vermicularisEnterobius vermicularis
Delftia tsuruhatensis
Streptosporangium violaceochromogenes
Actinomadura cremeaActinomadura cremea
Micobacterium saperdaeMicobacterium saperdae

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Signature 2

Needs review

Curated date: 2025/07/20

Curator: Nuerteye

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye

Source: Figure 2C

Description: Microbial distribution in lung tissues of TB and NonTB patients. LEfSe analyses were performed to determine the microbial features with significant differences in the relative abundance.

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in patients with tuberculosis

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Fusobacterium nucleatum
Prevotella melaninogenica
Ralstonia insidiosa
Paracoccus versutusParacoccus versutus
Stenotrophomonas tumulicolaStenotrophomonas tumulicola
Staphylococcus haemolyticus
Bradyrhizobium brasilenceBradyrhizobium brasilence
Afipia clevelandensisAfipia clevelandensis
Bradyrhizobium embrapenseBradyrhizobium embrapense
Rhizobium oryzihabitansRhizobium oryzihabitans
Methylorubrum populi

Revision editor(s): Nuerteye