Figure 1.
Bacteria identified by the conventional culture methods in children (A) and in adults (B).
Table 1.
Genotypic identification of the 8 misidentified isolates.
Figure 2.
Box plot graph representing the number of detected bacterial species in the two groups of patients.
Group 1 = patients to whom 24 clones from their sputa have been sequenced; Group 2 = patients to whom 40 clones from their sputa have been sequenced.
Table 2.
The bacterial diversity detected using the genomic methods.
Figure 3.
Comparison between phenotypic and genotypic detection and identification.
The number in the box indicates the number of clones obtained for each bacterial species in each sputum. C1, C2, C3, and C4 were control analysis. Blue color box = concordant results between PCR-cloning and culture; red color box = negative PCR-cloning and positive culture; green color box = positive PCR-cloning and negative culture; yellow color box = misidentified bacteria.