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. 2017 Jan 1;195(1):104–114. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201603-0523OC

Table 1.

Clinical, Demographic, and Microbiologic Features Are Significantly Associated with Airway Bacterial β-Diversity in Patients with HIV and Pneumonia

Variable Sample (n) Yes/No* Min–Max (Median) PERMANOVA
R2 P Value
Clinical and demographic        
 70-day mortality 182 143/39 (live/dead)   0.006 0.053
 Alcohol ever consumed 182 113/69   0.015 0.045
 Ceftriaxone at bronchoscopy 174 54/120   0.061 0.001
 Ceftriaxone within last 2 wk 178 137/41   0.016 0.040
 Culture identified Aspergillus 157 15/142   0.038 0.004
 Sex 182 110/72 (F/M)   0.021 0.017
 TB-positive by culture 182 40/1/141 (positive/scanty/negative)   0.027 0.021
Microbiologic        
 Chao1 182   170–1,326 (484.1) 0.080 0.001
 Faith’s phylogenetic diversity 182   8.792–45.83 (21.97) 0.091 0.001
 Observed species 182   39–865 (340.5) 0.076 0.001
 Shannon diversity 182   0.642–6.427 (4.011) 0.169 0.001
 Simpson diversity 182   0.112–0.977 (0.867) 0.154 0.001

Definition of abbreviations: Max = maximum;  Min = minimum; PERMANOVA = permutational multivariate analysis of variance; TB = tuberculosis.

*

Unless otherwise noted.

PERMANOVA value calculated using a Canberra distance matrix.