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Fig. 5 | BMC Microbiology

Fig. 5

From: The development and application of a molecular community profiling strategy to identify polymicrobial bacterial DNA in the whole blood of septic patients

Fig. 5

The bacteria DNA profiles of healthy blood. Whole blood was collected from 10 adult donors that worked in a health care setting but were healthy at the time of sampling. Two negative template controls (NTC) and sterile PBS were included for comparison. Taxonomic summaries for the blood samples were compared. Each bar represents the total DNA sequenced for the sample and the percent relative abundance of each OTU identified (a). The bacterial DNA profile profiles of the HB samples were similar to each other but distinct from the NTCs and PBS samples. The letter in front of each taxonomic group indicates the level of taxonomic depth with p__ representing phyla, f __representing family, o__ representing order, and g__ representing genus (a). Principal coordinates analysis (PCoA), based on weighted UniFrac, indicated the healthy blood samples (red) clustered separately from septic blood samples (green) (b)

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BMC Microbiology

ISSN: 1471-2180

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