Fig. 1.

Principal coordinate analysis of the fecal microbiome of controls and cirrhotic patients. This graph shows the variation in fecal microbiome plotted on a principal coordinate analysis plot. Points that are closer to each other are similar with respect to their stool microbiota. The healthy controls represented by the black dots are clustered together, whereas the cirrhotic patients represented by the gray dots are distant from the controls. This indicates a difference in the stool microbiome of healthy controls compared to cirrhotic patients.