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Volume 21, Number 2—February 2015
Research

Microbiota That Affect Risk for Shigellosis in Children in Low-Income Countries

Brianna LindsayComments to Author , Joe Oundo, M. Anowar Hossain, Martin Antonio, Boubou Tamboura, Alan W. Walker, Joseph N. Paulson, Julian Parkhill, Richard Omore, Abu S.G. Faruque, Suman Kumar Das, Usman N. Ikumapayi, Mitchell Adeyemi, Doh Sanogo, Debasish Saha, Samba Sow, Tamer H. Farag, Dilruba Nasrin, Shan Li, Sandra Panchalingam, Myron M. Levine, Karen Kotloff, Laurence S. Magder, Laura Hungerford, Halvor Sommerfelt, Mihai Pop, James P. Nataro, and O. Colin Stine
Author affiliations: University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA (B. Lindsay, T.H. Farag, D. Nasrin, S. Li, S. Panchalingam, M.M. Levine, K. Kotloff, L.S. Magder, L. Hungerford, O.C. Stine); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Kenya Medical Research Institute Research Station, Kisumu, Kenya (J. Oundo, R. Omore); International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Mirzapur, Bangladesh (M.A. Hossain, A.S.G. Faruque, S.K. Das); Medical Research Council, Basse, The Gambia (M. Antonio, U.N. Ikumapayi, M. Adeyemi, D. Saha); Centre pour le Developpement des Vaccins du Mali, Bamako, Mali (B. Tamboura, D. Sanogo, S. Sow); Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK (A.W. Walker, J. Parkhill); University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA (J.N. Paulson, M. Pop); University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (S.K. Das); University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway (H. Sommerfelt); Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Bergen (H. Sommerfelt); University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA (J.P. Nataro)

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Figure 3

Overall 16S rRNA gene–based bacterial community profiles (proportional abundance) of diarrheal samples with high levels of ipaH gene (n = 277), diarrheal samples with low levels of ipaH gene (n = 1,023), nondiarrheal samples with high levels of ipaH gene (n = 127), and nondiarrheal samples with low levels of ipaH gene (n = 1,608) from children in low-income countries. Other indicates sequences that were not identified as 1 of the 9 most abundant taxa or did not have good (>100 bp exact match,

Figure 3. Overall 16S rRNA gene–based bacterial community profiles (proportional abundance) of diarrheal samples with high levels of ipaH gene (n = 277), diarrheal samples with low levels of ipaH gene (n = 1,023), nondiarrheal samples with high levels of ipaH gene (n = 127), and nondiarrheal samples with low levels of ipaH gene (n = 1,608) from children in low-income countries. Other indicates sequences that were not identified as 1 of the 9 most abundant taxa or did not have good (>100 bp exact match, >97% identity) matches with isolate sequences from the Ribosomal Database Project (19).

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