Fig 1.
Flow diagram of the final number of children included in the study.
Table 1.
Characteristics of the 87 severely malnourished children (ntotal = 87; numbers in brackets indicate number of children positive for a given category).
Fig 2.
Observed species in the GM of oedematous (blue, mean = 378 ± 164) and non-oedematous (red, mean = 305 ± 143) SAM-children (t = 2.0852, p = 0.036).
Fig 3.
Principal Coordinate Analysis plot of the tag-encoded 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing GM-characterization; A. Unweighted Unifrac distance metrics. Oedematous (blue) vs non-oedematous (red) SAM children (ANOSIM, R = 0.0719, p = 0.011), B. Weighted Unifrac distance metrics. Oedematous (blue) vs non-oedematous (red) SAM children (ANOSIM, R = -0.0085, p = 0.584).
Table 2.
Phyla distribution and abundance, children with oedematous vs non-oedematous SAM.