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Box and whisker plots showing the magnitude of the treatment effect for six biomarkers (the ratio of week 8 and week 0 biomarker levels) after grouping subjects according to three outcome variables: week 8 culture conversion status, week 12 culture conversion status, and presence/absence of cough at 8 weeks. The asterisks indicate that the difference between two groups is significant (p < 0.05/62 assays = 0.0008).
