Fig. 1
From: Ecological patterns and processes of temporal turnover within lung infection microbiota
Persistence and abundance of chronic and intermittent colonizing bacteria within the lung microbiota of individual patients. Using a modification of the Leeds criteria, (A) paediatric and (B) adult patients were deemed to be chronically or intermittently colonized with a given bacteria if > 50% or ≤ 50% of samples, respectively, over the 3-year study period were positive by for that taxon. Chronic and intermittent colonizing taxa are denoted with orange and grey circles, respectively. When present, canonical pathogens are denoted with different coloured diamonds: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, black; Staphylococcus aureus, light green; Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, gold; Burkholderia cepacia complex members, light blue; Haemophilus influenzae, purple; and Achromobacter xylosoxidans, blue. Chronic or intermittent colonization status for all bacterial taxa within the microbiota of each patient is highlighted in the supplemental microbiota data (see Availability of data and materials). All persistence-abundance relationships were significant (P < 0.0001 in all instances). Regression statistics are provided in Supplementary Table S1