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. 2021 Mar 5;8:586875. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2021.586875

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Impact of antibiotic duration on the gut microbiota composition. (A) Shannon index distribution (genus level) at the end of treatment and at follow-up (15 days after antibiotic withdrawal) according to antibiotic duration; Wilcoxon test for paired comparison and, Mann-Whitney test for inter-group comparisons. (B) Richness distribution (genus level) at the end of treatment and at follow-up (15 days after antibiotic withdrawal) according to antibiotic duration; Wilcoxon test for paired comparison and, Mann-Whitney test for inter-group comparisons. (C) Correlation between the Shannon index and antibiotic duration at EOT and FU; simple linear regression. Principal coordinate analysis of Bray–Curtis distance at three different times of sampling for (D) patients treated for 6 weeks with antibiotics (41 to 60 days) or (E) 12 weeks with antibiotics (81 to 100 days); permutational multivariate analysis of variance. B, baseline; EOT, end of treatment; FU, follow-up. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001.