Fig. 4

Gut microbiota diversity is not affected in patients with Schistosoma japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis (SLC). Beta diversity was calculated based on weighted UniFrac distances and is represented per group as box and whisker plots (a). A principal component analysis (PCA) was also performed and is presented (per sample, and group) (b). Yellow plot/symbols and blue or red plot/symbols refer to SLC and healthy control samples, respectively. In a, the P-value was determined using the Wilcoxon Rank-Sum test (P = 0.772). In b, we performed a PERMANOVA test (P = 0.09915). No statistical differences were detected between the two groups