Table 3.
Temporal reliability of microbiome measures. Intraclass correlation coefficients for interquartile log-ratio transformed phyla, alpha diversity, and beta diversity measures.
| No antibiotic use (n=27) | Antibiotic use (n=23) | Total (n=50) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Phylum | |||
| Firmicutes | 0.64 | 0.46 | 0.57 |
| Bacteroidetes | 0.62 | 0.59 | 0.56 |
| Proteobacteria | 0.65 | 0.44 | 0.56 |
| Actinobacteria | 0.67 | 0.49 | 0.59 |
| Alpha diversity | |||
| Phylogenetic diversity | 0.75 | 0.55 | 0.66 |
| Shannon index | 0.67 | 0.46 | 0.58 |
| Chao1 | 0.56 | 0.45 | 0.52 |
| Beta diversity | |||
| Unweighted UniFrac PC1 | 0.93 | 0.83 | 0.89 |
| Weighted UniFrac PC1 | 0.65 | 0.66 | 0.64 |
| Bray-Curtis PC1 | 0.95 | 0.88 | 0.90 |
| Jaccard PC1 | 0.95 | 0.90 | 0.90 |