FIG 3.
Comparison of lung bacteriobiota between survivors and nonsurvivors in severe AECOPD patients. (A) Boxplot of estimated α-diversity by Shannon index. (B) Boxplot of estimated α-diversity by Simpson index. (C) Boxplot of estimated α-diversity by evenness. (D) Nonmetric Bray-Curtis analysis of β-diversity. The threshold for statistical significance was P = 0.05.