Bacterial Colonization in the Airways and Intestines of Twin and Singleton Preterm Neonates: A Single-Center Study

Figure 1

The dilution curve reflects the rationality of the amount of sequencing data and the abundance of species in the sample. The Chao1 (a) and Shannon (b) indices in the alpha-diversity analyses reflect the richness and homogeneity of bacterial colonies. The violin plot comparing the differences among the groups through the Kruskal–Wallis test (c, d). The value in the upper left corner was obtained via grouping using the rank-sum test; ; ; .

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