TABLE 1.
Number and fraction of microbes from a human stool sample cultured by MicDrop in mGAMa
| Taxonomic level |
No. of taxa in inoculum |
No. of taxa detected in droplets |
No. of taxa in inoculum and detected in droplets |
Fraction of inoculum detected in droplets |
No. of taxa that grew in droplets |
No. of taxa in inoculum that grew in droplets |
Fraction of taxa in inoculum that grew in droplets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phylum | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1.00 | 5 | 4 | 1.00 |
| Class | 10 | 11 | 10 | 1.00 | 7 | 5 | 0.50 |
| Order | 10 | 14 | 10 | 1.00 | 8 | 5 | 0.50 |
| Family | 17 | 21 | 16 | 0.94 | 13 | 7 | 0.41 |
| Genus | 56 | 53 | 40 | 0.71 | 20 | 13 | 0.23 |
| Sequence variant | 89 | 94 | 68 | 0.76 | 34 | 22 | 0.25 |
a
SVs were considered to have been “detected” if present in more than five longitudinal measurements. “Growth” was defined by determination of an inferred number of doublings equal to or greater than 2.14.