Fig. 1
From: Altered fecal microbiome and metabolome in adult patients with non-cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis
Flowchart. One hundred forty-five fecal samples were collected from Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. Samples were randomly allocated to the discovery cohort and validation cohort. In the discovery cohort, 30, 31, and 37 fecal samples collected from the SP, AE, and HC groups, respectively, were assigned to 16 S rRNA gene sequencing. Thirty-one and 29 samples from HC and SP groups were assigned to LC-MS analysis