Fig 5. Major fungal species detected.

The species-level taxonomic profile of mycobiome in COVID-19 (C1-C8), Recovered (R1-R7) and Healthy (H1-H7) nasopharyngeal samples. Species with > 1% mean relative abundance are represented by different color codes against respective sample groups. Other species (< 1%) indicate the rare less abundant taxa in each group, with a mean relative abundance of < 1%. Each stacked bar plot represents the abundance of fungal species in each sample of the corresponding category. Notable differences in fungal populations are those where the species is abundant in COVID-19 and Recovered samples, and effectively not detected in the Healthy controls. The distribution and relative abundance of the fungal genera in the study metagenomes are also available in S1 Data.