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From: Characterisation of microbiota in saliva, bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, non-malignant, peritumoural and tumour tissue in non-small cell lung cancer patients: a cross-sectional clinical trial

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Diversity of the salivary and four lung microbiota. a Beta diversity of salivary and lung microbiota represented by non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) based on weighted and unweighted UniFrac distances. Alpha diversity of saliva and four lung samples assessed by b number of observed OTUs, c Faith’s phylogenetic diversity, and d Shannon diversity. Statistical significance of difference in beta diversity was assessed with adonis function (vegan) with 999 permutations. Statistical significance of difference in alpha diversity was assessed with Kruskal-Wallis followed by, where appropriate, Man-Whitney U test with BH correction for multiple comparison. *: p ≤ 0.05, **: p ≤ 0.01. BAL - bronchoalveolar lavage fluid, KW – Kruskal-Wallis test, LUNG.DP - non-malignant distal piece, LUNG.PT - peritumoural tissue, LUNG. T – tumour, uwUF – unweighted UniFrac, wUF – weighted UniFrac

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Respiratory Research

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