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Figure 2 | Microbiome

Figure 2

From: Effect of chemotherapy on the microbiota and metabolome of human milk, a case report

Figure 2

Changes in bacterial diversity as a result of chemotherapy. Bacterial diversity within a sample (i.e. alpha diversity) was measured by calculating Shannon’s diversity index. Each point on the graph represents a subject with the line representing the mean for all samples within a group. The higher the index the greater the bacterial diversity found within a sample. The mean of the ‘Wk0/H’ group (week 0 and healthy samples) was 4.3, and that of the chemotherapy group (weeks 2 to 16) was 2.8. Groups were statistically different from each other as measured by unpaired Student’s t-test (P < 0.05).

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