Enriched Opportunistic Pathogens Revealed by Metagenomic Sequencing Hint Potential Linkages between Pharyngeal Microbiota and COVID-19/Experiment 3

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Fatima on 2022/05/17

Curated date: 2021/07/03

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks

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 negative patients with fever and cough
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
COVID-19 negative patients with fever and cough
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