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Fig. 2 | Microbiome

Fig. 2

From: Bacterial colonization dynamics and antibiotic resistance gene dissemination in the hospital environment after first patient occupancy: a longitudinal metagenetic study

Fig. 2

Diversity metrics of the environmental samples between sites and over time. A Alpha-diversity of each environmental site. Shown is the Shannon index (Mean ± SEM, ***p < 0.001, ANOVA/Bonferroni). B Alpha-diversity over time. Shown is the Shannon index over different week blocks (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ANOVA/Bonferroni). C Principal coordinates analysis of the beta-diversity using weighted UniFrac distances. Shown are the distances between the different sites addressed in this study. D Principal coordinates analysis showing the unweighted UniFrac distances between samples for each site as analyzed over time in different week-blocks. E Graph depicting the stabilization dynamics of the bacterial community structures as measured by the unweighted UniFrac distances to the microbial composition of all rooms in week 30 (Mean ± 95%CI). Statistical significance was calculated by ANOSIM between each week and week 30. (*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, after Bonferroni correction for multiple testing)

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