Exploring nasopharyngeal microbiota profile in children affected by SARS-CoV-2 infection/Experiment 1
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Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2024-4-8
Subjects
- Location of subjects
- United States of America
- 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 patients
- Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
- Children whose Nasopharyngeal swab were positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection, as assayed by a molecular test.
- Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
- 59
- Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
- 71
- 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
- V3-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
- LEfSe
- 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
- Matched on Factors on which subjects have been matched on in a case-control study
- age
Alpha Diversity
- Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness
- decreased
- Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness
- decreased
- Simpson Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species evenness
- decreased
- Richness Number of species
- decreased
- Faith Phylogenetic diversity, takes into account phylogenetic distance of all taxa identified in a sample
- decreased
Signature 1
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2024-5-6
Source: Figure 3
Description: Differences in bacterial taxa abundance of nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiota in COVID-19 patients VS Control (CTRL) groups
Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in COVID-19 patients
Revision editor(s): Ndruscilla, Ayibatari, Joan Chuks
Signature 2
Reviewed Marked as Reviewed by ChiomaBlessing on 2024-5-6
Source: Figure 3
Description: Differences in bacterial taxa abundance of nasopharyngeal (NP) microbiota in COVID-19 patients Vs Control (CTRL) groups
Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in COVID-19 patients
Revision editor(s): Ndruscilla, Ayibatari, Joan Chuks
