Fig. 5
From: Characteristics of upper and lower respiratory tract microbiota after lung transplantation
Characterization of microbial similarity of sputum to throat swab and BALF. (A) Classification of sputum microbiota as “BALF”, “Throat swab”, “Both” and “Neither” based on their Bray-Curtis dissimilarity to throat swab and to BALF. (B) Shannon diversity of each group as defined in panel A. (C) Comparison of the BALF-sputum Bray-Curtis dissimilarity between predominance microbiota groups and the balanced microbiota group. Two-sided Wilcoxon rank-sum test was used to compare the Shannon diversity between different groups. **: P ≤ 0.01; *:0.01 < P ≤ 0.05; ns: P > 0.05