| FS | febrile seizures |
| SFS | simple febrile seizures |
| CFS | complex febrile seizures |
| CSF | cerebrospinal fluid |
| GABA | γ-aminobutyric acid |
| PCA | principal component analysis |
| PLS-DA | partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| OPLS-DA | orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis |
| KEGG | Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes |
| LEfSe | linear discriminant analysis effect size |
| ASV | amplicon sequence variant |