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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: The bacterial density of clinical rectal swabs is highly variable, correlates with sequencing contamination, and predicts patient risk of extraintestinal infection

Fig. 5

The bacterial density of rectal swabs at the time of hospital admission is predictive of subsequent extra-intestinal infections. Kaplan-Meier curves of infection-free survival in our cohort of hospitalized patients. Cross tick-marks represent censored patients. Using a threshold of 106 16S rRNA gene copies/specimen, we found that patients with high bacterial density were more likely to have extraintestinal infections at 7 and 14 days following sampling (p = 0.016 with stratified log-rank)

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