Venn diagrams representing the unique and shared fungal taxa in Healthy, COVID-19, and Recovered nasopharyngeal sample groups. (A) Venn diagram showing unique and shared fungal phyla. Out of 28 detected phyla, only 10 phyla (highlighted in blue circle) were found to be shared in the metagenomes. (B) Venn diagram comparison of 190 orders of fungi detected across the sample groups, of which only 35 (highlighted in blue circle) orders were found to be shared among the conditions. (C) Venn diagrams representing unique and shared fungal genera identified in three metagenomes. Of the detected fungal genera (n = 532), 57, 213 and 128 genera had sole association with Healthy, COVID-19, and Recovered subjects, respectively, and only 34 genera (highlighted in blue circle) were found to be shared across three metagenomes. (D) Venn diagrams representing unique and shared fungal species identified in three metagenomes. Of the detected fungal species (n = 862), the Healthy, COVID-19 and Recovered cases had sole association of 81, 227 and 315 species, respectively, and 65 species (highlighted in blue circle) were found to be shared across the study sample groups. More information on the taxonomic result is also available in S1 Data.