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

Fig. 6

The bacterial density of rectal swabs predicts risk of extraintestinal infection in multivariate analysis. Forest plot for hazard ratio from frailty analysis of infection-free survival, stratified by matched pair. The bacterial density of clinical rectal swabs predicts total infection-free days (p = 0.0028) with a hazard ratio of 1.21 for every log fold increase in 16S gene copies/sample. This remained significant after controlling for severity of acute illness, chronic comorbidities, antibiotic use, and admission for sepsis syndrome

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Microbiome

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