Figure 1. Alpha and beta diversity of the EV-extracted microbiome obtained from EBC samples
A) Alpha diversity within each sample of the control and asthma EBC samples was measured based on the observed, Chao1, Shannon, and Simpson diversity indices and plotted using a boxplot for each clinical group. B) Bray-Curtis distance between the samples was measured and visualized as a PCoA plot for the dissimilarity between samples.