Figure 4

Differences in taxonomic distributions associated with the presence of severe preeclampsia according to a linear discriminant analysis (LDA) of effect size (LEfSe) model, https://bitbucket.org/biobakery/biobakery/wiki/lefse, bioBakery V1.8. (a) Bacterial taxa showing different abundances between cases with severe preeclampsia and control women were visualized using a cladogram generated from the LEfSe analysis. (b) A log LDA score above 3.00 indicated an increased abundance of amplicon sequence variants (ASVs) attributable to Bacteroidetes, Bacteriodia, Bacteroidales, Prevotella, Prevotellaceae and Prevotella bivia in cases with SPE.