Figure 4.
Taxonomy of microbial communities as assessed by Metaphlan for seven CF patients, from 13.5 million Ion Torrent reads of ∼140 bp in length. The average fractional abundance of taxa for the seven CF patients from the cross-sectional study is also shown (CF average), in addition to the taxonomy of one sputum sample induced in a healthy volunteer (Healthy), and the pooled data from a previous data set taken from six CF patients at two to four time-points (Pooled CF) (Lim et al., 2012). Relative abundance data can be found in Supplementary Table 10.