Initial acquisition and succession of the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome is associated with disease progression in infants and preschool children
Fig 2
Merged sequence data for replicate BAL aliquots shows distinct sample groupings.
Scaled Bray-Curtis distance NMDS performed on OTUs in merged replicate BAL samples (Stress: 0.043, non-metric fit R2 = 0.998). The average background community (AvgBG, white circle) was treated as an additional sample and included for comparison. Patient age at the time of sampling is denoted and groups are labeled and indicated by a dashed line.