Figure 1

Analysis of microbial communities in pediatric and adult patients. (A) Nineteen genera accounted for 85% of the reads in sputum collected from thirteen pediatric patients with cystic fibrosis (CF). Data are presented in a stacked bar chart of relative abundance as fractions of total reads (y-axis) for the top 19 genera for each patient (x-axis). Families are numbered 1 to 6, and pairs of monozygous twins are connected with a red dash. The color key indicating these 19 genera is shown at the bottom of the figure. Pediatric samples contain a large fraction of genus Streptococcus, shown at the bottom of the bars in maroon. (B) Fifteen genera accounted for 85% of the reads in sputum collected from ten adult patients with CF. Adult samples are often dominated by the genus Pseudomonas, shown in black. Burkholderia, shown in green, is dominant in patient 8.