Fig. 2.

Measurement of levels of bacterial products in HIV-infected patients. (A) 16S rRNA gene copies per milliliter plasma from HIV-infected cART-naive patients (left) and from HIV-infected patients receiving cART (right) (Wilcoxon rank-sum test [P = 0.0648]. The centered lines indicate the medians, the box corners the upper and lower quartiles, and the whiskers the minimums and maximums. ART, antiretroviral therapy. (B) Correlation between copy numbers of 16S rRNA gene and LPS levels in plasma from HIV-infected patients who were treatment naive or were receiving cART (Spearman's rho = 0.6156 [P = 0.0018]).