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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Pulm Med. 2016 Mar;23(2):57–66. doi: 10.1097/CPM.0000000000000108

Figure 2. Diversity of the microbiota is correlated with lung function.

Figure 2

In this study by Zemanick, bacterial diversity was determined in patients undergoing an exacerbation.56 The Shannon Diversity score is a measure of the richness and eveness of populations. Patients with lower FEV1% predicted scores typically contain less diversity. The size of the circle represents the relative abundance of P. aeruginosa with larger circles indicating patients dominated by P. aeruginosa. Reproduced with permission from the authors, obtained via open access from PLOS one.