Figure 3.

Comparison of bacterial community structure in benign vocal fold lesions and throat and saliva samples from the HMP. PCoA based on Theta Yue Clayton distances illustrating the clustering of most lesion samples, regardless of lesion diagnosis with the inclusion of 15 randomly selected throat and saliva HMP samples. Lesion samples are shown as circles, cysts as orange circles, nodules as yellow circles, polyps as red circles, and Reinke’s edema as blue circles. HMP samples are shown as squares, saliva as green squares, and throat as purple squares.