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. 2022 Jan;71(1):222-225.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324090. Epub 2021 Apr 8.

Six-month follow-up of gut microbiota richness in patients with COVID-19

Yanfei Chen #  1 , Silan Gu #  1 , Yunbo Chen  1 , Haifeng Lu  1 , Ding Shi  1 , Jing Guo  1 , Wen-Rui Wu  1 , Ya Yang  1 , Yongtao Li  1 , Kai-Jin Xu  1 , Cheng Ding  1 , Rui Luo  1 , Chenjie Huang  1 , Ling Yu  1 , Min Xu  1 , Ping Yi  2 , Jun Liu  3 , Jing-Jing Tao  4 , Hua Zhang  1 , Longxian Lv  4 , Baohong Wang  1 , Jifang Sheng  1 , Lanjuan Li  5
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Six-month follow-up of gut microbiota richness in patients with COVID-19

Yanfei Chen et al. Gut. 2022 Jan.
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Keywords: COVID-19; intestinal microbiology.

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Figure 1
Changes of faecal microbial communities in different stages (acute, convalescence, postconvalescence) of patients with COVID-19 (n=30), compared with uninfected controls (n=30). (A) α-Diversity, illustrated by microbiota richness (Chao 1 index), was reduced in COVID-19 (p<0.01, Wilcoxon rank-sum test). Boxes represent the 25th–75th percentile of the distribution; the median is shown as a thick line in the middle of the box; whiskers extend to values with 1.5 times the difference between the 25th and 75th percentiles. ***P<0.001. (B) Principal coordinate analysis (PCoA) of Bray-Curtis distance analysis demonstrated that the overall microbial composition of patients with COVID-19 deviated from the uninfected controls (analysis of similarities, R = – 0.201, p=0.001). (C) The same PCoA plot as (B), coloured by α-diversity measured by Chao 1 index.
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