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.