Figure 3
From: Lung microbiome of stable and exacerbated COPD patients in Tshwane, South Africa
The alpha diversity box-plot of the sputum microbiome compared across the exacerbated state (n = 6) and stable state (n = 18) of COPD using Chao1 and Simpson diversity measures. Each dot on the graph represents a sample. The boxes represent the interquartile range (IQR) and the horizontal line represents the median. The median values for Chao1 diversity measure were as follows: (i) stable state = 147.06 and (ii) exacerbated state = 115.56. The median values for the Simpson diversity measures were as follows: (i) stable state = 0.84 and (ii) exacerbated state = 0.86.
