Table 4. Relative abundance and distribution from the sequence pool for the top 30 taxon groups from BAL samples in clinically stable and exacerbated bronchiectasis.

	Stable			Exacerbation
order	genus	frequency	Proportion (%)	genus	frequency	Proportion (%)
1	Haemophilus	1,216,187	42.42	Haemophilus	584,362	43.13
2	Pseudomonas	635,524	22.17	Pseudomonas	324,463	23.95
3	Moraxella	491,222	17.13	Klebsiella	169,204	12.49
4	Prevotella	123,937	4.32	Prevotella	62,653	4.62
5	Staphylococcus	111,237	3.88	Roseomonas	31,822	2.35
6	Streptococcus	39,269	1.37	Aeromonas	24,837	1.83
7	Campylobacter	32,833	1.15	Campylobacter	16,247	1.20
8	Comamonas	31,027	1.08	Neisseria	12,945	0.96
9	Neisseria	29,208	1.02	Streptococcus	10,487	0.77
10	Gallibacterium	20,846	0.73	Selenomonas	10,336	0.76
11	Porphyromonas	17,546	0.61	Gallibacterium	8,529	0.63
12	Veillonella	12,841	0.45	Veillonella	8,267	0.61
13	Roseomonas	12,274	0.43	Rothia	8,194	0.60
14	Fusobacterium	7,696	0.27	Serratia	6,839	0.50
15	Selenomonas	6,796	0.24	Porphyromonas	6,688	0.49
16	Corynebacterium	6,256	0.22	Peptostreptococcus	5,843	0.43
17	Tannerella	5,259	0.18	Propionibacterium	5,030	0.37
18	Lautropia	4,367	0.15	Micrococcus	4,405	0.33
19	Klebsiella	4,338	0.15	Fusobacterium	3,296	0.24
20	Serratia	4,025	0.14	Paracoccus	2,802	0.21
21	Micrococcus	3,892	0.14	Lactobacillus	2,794	0.21
22	Gordonia	3,210	0.11	Escherichia	2,624	0.19
23	Oribacterium	3,193	0.11	Mycobacterium	2,349	0.17
24	Peptostreptococcus	3,050	0.11	Staphylococcus	2,248	0.17
25	Capnocytophaga	1,954	0.07	Sphingomonas	2,184	0.16
26	Achromobacter	1,898	0.07	Catonella	1,874	0.14
27	Dialister	1,803	0.06	Gordonia	1,736	0.13
28	Acinetobacter	1,760	0.06	Oribacterium	1,664	0.12
29	Eubacterium	1,750	0.06	Butyrivibrio	1,641	0.12
30	Actinobacillus	1,615	0.06	Eubacterium	1,497	0.11

Abbreviation: BAL; bronchoalveolar lavage