Increased Abundance of Achromobacter xylosoxidans and Bacillus cereus in Upper Airway Transcriptionally Active Microbiome of COVID-19 Mortality Patients Indicates Role of Co-Infections in Disease Severity and Outcome/Experiment 1

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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Folakunmi on 2024-3-25

Curated date: 2024/03/08

Curator: Leenaa

Revision editor(s): Leenaa, Folakunmi, Omojokunoluwatomisin, Svetlana up

Subjects

Location of subjects
India
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 symptoms measurement COVID-19 symptoms measurement,cOVID-19 symptoms measurement
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
mild
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
moderate
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
patients showing breathing difficulty with SpO2 levels ranging between 91% and 93%.
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
24
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
36

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
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)?
No

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
unchanged

Signature 1

Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by Folakunmi on 2024-3-25

Curated date: 2024/03/08

Curator: Leenaa

Revision editor(s): Leenaa

Source: Figure 3i-j

Description: Differentially abundant bacterial species between mild group and moderate group

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in moderate

NCBI Quality ControlLinks
Halomonas sp.
Schaalia meyeri

Revision editor(s): Leenaa