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Fig. 5 | Microbiome

Fig. 5

From: The microbiota in bronchoalveolar lavage from young children with chronic lung disease includes taxa present in both the oropharynx and nasopharynx

Fig. 5

Paired specimens from 65 % of children were more similar to each other than to specimens from other children. Hierarchical group average cluster analysis based on Bray-Curtis similarity matrix derived from square root transformed OTU-level data. Forty-nine children with sequence data for upper airway (combined NP and OP) and lower airway (combined Lavage-1 and Lavage-2) microbiota were included in the cluster analysis. Coloured symbols at the right of the figure indicate paired upper and lower airway data from individual children. A similarity profile permutation test was used to identify clusters with significant similarity (red dashed branches)

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