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Table 1 Richness, alpha-diversity, and abundance by microbiota sample type

From: The association between anterior nares and nasopharyngeal microbiota in infants hospitalized for bronchiolitis

 

Nasal swab

Nasopharyngeal aspirate

Richness, median (IQR)

 Number of genera

6 (3–15)

12 (6.5–20)

Alpha-diversity, median (IQR)

 Shannon index

0.58 (0.09–1.11)

0.90 (0.52–1.40)

Relative abundance of 15 most common genera, mean (SD), maximum

 Staphylococcus

0.41 (0.43)

1.00

0.02 (0.10)

1.00

 Moraxella

0.09 (0.21)

0.99

0.31 (0.34)

1.00

 Streptococcus

0.05 (0.14)

0.98

0.30 (0.30)

1.00

 Haemophilus

0.07 (0.20)

1.00

0.20 (0.31)

1.00

 Corynebacterium

0.10 (0.22)

1.00

0.01 (0.06)

0.95

 Dolosigranulum

0.05 (0.14)

1.00

0.01 (0.04

0.70

 Enterobacter

0.05 (0.18)

1.00

0.00 (0.03)

0.48

 Neisseria

0.00 (0.01)

0.19

0.02 (0.07)

0.75

 Enterococcus

0.02 (0.12)

1.00

0.00 (0.01)

0.23

 Bacillus

0.02 (0.14)

1.00

0.00 (0.00)

0.02

 Acinetobacter

0.02 (0.12)

1.00

0.00 (0.02)

0.25

 Prevotella

0.00 (0.01)

0.29

0.02 (0.05)

0.58

 Alloprevotella

0.00 (0.01)

0.18

0.01 (0.04)

0.56

 Veillonella

0.00 (0.01)

0.10

0.01 (0.03)

0.27

 Gemella

0.00 (0.00)

0.06

0.01 (0.03)

0.52

  1. Comparison of the richness, alpha-diversity (Shannon index), and genus abundances for the nasal swab and nasopharyngeal aspirate samples. The most common genera were determined by the union of the 10 most abundant genera from each sample type and are listed in order from most to least abundant