Comparison | Number of children | Bray-Curtis similarity median (95Â % CI) | PERMANOVA | ||||||
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Variation between specimen types | Variation between children | Residual variation | |||||||
p | Pseudo-F (df) | %CoV | p | Pseudo-F (df) | %CoV | %CoV | |||
NP and OP | 65 | 10.1 (8.2–12.6) | 0.0001* | 35.3 (1) | 35.5 | 0.001* | 1.2 (64) | 15.7 | 48.8 |
Lavage-1 and Lavage-2 | 57 | 70.9 (63.2–74.0) | 0.72 | 0.8 (1) | n/a | 0.0001* | 6.01 (57) | 61.4 | 38.6 |
NP and Lavage-1 | 65 | 25.6 (22.3–28.8) | 0.0001* | 21.9 (1) | 25.3 | 0.0001* | 1.9 (64) | 30.1 | 44.6 |
OP and Lavage-1 | 65 | 54.5 (44.9–57.6) | 0.0001* | 12.2 (1) | 17.9 | 0.0001* | 2.7 (64) | 39.2 | 42.9 |
Upper and Lavage-1 | 65 | 53.5 (48.4–56.7) | 0.0001* | 6.8 (1) | 13.0 | 0.0001* | 3.0 (64) | 43.4 | 43.5 |
Upper and lower | 49 | 55.5 (51.7–58.6) | 0.0001* | 4.9 (1) | 12.1 | 0.0001* | 3.2 (48) | 45.1 | 42.8 |