Enrichment of human nasopharyngeal bacteriome with bacteria from dust after short-term exposure to indoor environment: a pilot study/Experiment 2

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2024-1-28

Curated date: 2024/01/18

Curator: ChiomaBlessing

Revision editor(s): ChiomaBlessing

Subjects

Location of subjects
Czechia
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
Nasopharyngeal gland Nasopharyngeal gland,nasopharyngeal gland
Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology
Microbiome measurement Microbiome measurement,microbiome measurement
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Nasopharyngeal swab samples collected in the Morning from workplaces (NEO, ENT, RCX)
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Nasopharyngeal swab samples collected in the afternoon from workplaces (NEO, ENT, RCX)
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Nasopharyngeal swabs collected in the afternoon (after an 8 h exposure to the workplace environment). The participants were working at NEO, ENT, or RCX workplaces.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
22
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
21
Antibiotics exclusion Number of days without antibiotics usage (if applicable) and other antibiotics-related criteria used to exclude participants (if any)
None.

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
16S
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
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
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
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)?
Yes
LDA Score above Threshold for the linear discriminant analysis (LDA) score for studies using the popular LEfSe tool
2.0

Alpha Diversity

Richness Number of species
unchanged