TABLE 5 .

Summary table of beta-diversity, alpha-diversity, and taxonomic comparisons between rectal swabs and stool from this study and published data sets

Group 1	Group 2	R value (P value)
Rectal swabsa	ICU stoolb	0.19 (0.001)
	Healthy stoolc	0.54 (0.001)
	ICU orald	0.72 (0.001)
	ICU skind	0.80 (0.001)
Soiled rectal swabse	ICU stoolb	−0.04 (0.880)
	Healthy stoolc	0.38 (0.001)
Unsoiled rectal swabse	ICU stoolb	0.20 (0.001)
	Healthy stoolc	0.67 (0.001)

^aRectal swabs from present study and external validation cohort.

^bSamples from present study and the study by McDonald et al. (4).

^cSamples from American Gut Project.

^dSamples from McDonald et al. (4) only.

^eSamples from present study only.