Enriched Opportunistic Pathogens Revealed by Metagenomic Sequencing Hint Potential Linkages between Pharyngeal Microbiota and COVID-19/Experiment 2
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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Fatima on 2022/05/17
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
- Nasopharynx Nasenrachenraum,Epipharynx,Nasal part of pharynx,Pars nasalis pharyngis,Rhinopharynx,Nasopharynx,nasopharynx
- Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
- COVID-19 2019 novel coronavirus,2019 novel coronavirus infection,2019-nCoV,2019-nCoV infection,beta-CoV,beta-CoVs,betacoronavirus,coronavirus disease 2019,SARS-coronavirus 2,SARS-CoV-2,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infectious disease,β-coronavirus,β-CoV,β-CoVs,COVID-19,cOVID-19
- Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
- Healthy controls
- Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
- COVID-19 positive patients
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- COVID-19 positive patients with fever and cough symptoms
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 7
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 11
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
- MGISEQ-2000
Statistical Analysis
- Statistical test
- ANOVA
- Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any)
- 0.05
- MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
- No
Alpha Diversity
- Pielou Quantifies how equal the community is numerically
- decreased
- Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
- decreased
- Richness Number of species
- decreased
Signature 1
Source: Figure 3
Description: Analysis of species with differential abundance among the COVID-19 and healthy cohorts.
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in COVID-19 positive patients
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