Table 5.

The ANOSIM results of different statistical methods for beta diversity in swab samples

Statistical Methods	R values	p values
Euclidean distance	0.033	0.031
Bray-Curtis distance	0.125	0.001
Weighted Unifrac distance	0.121	0.001
Binary- Jaccard distance	0.034	0.089
Unweighted Unifrac distance	0.013	0.205

R value > 0 indicates that the variation between the two groups is higher than the variation within each group. P value < 0.05 indicates that the difference is significant