TABLE 2.
Prevalence of ASVs dominant in at least one middle ear effusion
| ASV | Species | Middle ear |
Ear canal |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prevalence (%) | Dominance (%)a | Prevalence (%) | Dominance (%)a | ||
| Alloiococcus 1 | Alloiococcus otitis | 87.6 | 39.2 | 90.2 | 75.5 |
| Haemophilus 1 | Haemophilus influenzae | 56.7 | 14.4 | 46.1 | 0 |
| Haemophilus 2 | Haemophilus aegyptius | 42.3 | 10.3 | 22.5 | 0 |
| Streptococcus 3 | Streptococcus pyogenes | 4.1 | 1.0 | 2.9 | 0 |
| Streptococcus 1 | Streptococcus pneumoniae / Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae b | 14.4 | 2.1 | 4.9 | 0 |
| Corynebacterium 1 | Corynebacterium pseudodiphtheriticum / Corynebacterium propinquum | 8.2 | 1.0 | 13.7 | 1.0 |
| Haemophilus 3 | Haemophilus quentini/H. influenzae | 10.3 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0 |
| Moraxella 1 | Moraxella catarrhalis/Moraxella nonliquefaciens | 47.4 | 4.1 | 43.1 | 0 |
| Staphylococcus 1 | Not resolved to species level | 51.5 | 3.1 | 69.6 | 4.9 |
| Turicella 1 | Corynebacterium otitidis | 71.1 | 4.1 | 81.4 | 7.8 |
a
Dominance was defined as the percentage of samples with a relative abundance of ≥50%.
b
ASV represents both listed species.