Fig. 4: Comparing ARG richness between paired body sites.
From: Abundance and diversity of resistomes differ between healthy human oral cavities and gut
ARG richness is defined as the number of unique ARGs for paired samples of individual from China (dental plaque and saliva: n = 31, stool and dental plaque: n = 30, stool and saliva: n = 31), Fiji (saliva and stool: n = 132), the USA (buccal mucosa and dental plaque: n = 78, buccal mucosa and dorsum of tongue: n = 86, dental plaque and dorsum of tongue: n = 89, stool and buccal mucosa: n = 64, stool and dental plaque: n = 68, stool and dorsum of tongue: n = 69) and Western Europe (saliva and stool: n = 21) with Mann–Whitney, paired, two-sided t test (p-value < 0.05 as *< 0.01 as **< 0.005 as ***). Centre line is median, box limits are upper and lower quartiles, whiskers are 1.5× interquartile ranges and points beyond whiskers are outliers. Source data are provided in the Source Data file.
