Microbial signatures in the lower airways of mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients associated with poor clinical outcome

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    Table 1: Rigor

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    Table 2: Resources

    Antibodies
    SentencesResources
    Anti-Spike SARS-CoV-2 antibody profiling in BAL: BAL samples were heat-treated at 56°C for one hour, and centrifuged at 14000g for 5 min.
    Anti-Spike SARS-CoV-2
    suggested: None
    After washing the beads, bound antibodies were labeled with anti IgG-DyLight488, anti IgA-PE and anti IgM-PECy7, and the fluorescence intensities were measured in Intellicyt IQue3 (Sartorius).
    anti IgG-DyLight488
    suggested: None
    anti IgA-PE
    suggested: (Santa Cruz Biotechnology Cat# sc-3695, RRID:AB_648816)
    anti IgM-PECy7
    suggested: None
    The acquired data [median fluorescence intensity (MFI)] were normalized using the MFI values of the CR3022 antibodies to compensate for variations across plates.
    CR3022
    suggested: None
    Experimental Models: Cell Lines
    SentencesResources
    SARS-CoV-2 preparation and neutralization assay: icSARS-CoV-2-mNG (isolate USA/WA/1/2020, obtained from the UTMB World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses) was amplified once in Vero E6 cells (P1 from the original stock).
    Vero E6
    suggested: RRID:CVCL_XD71)
    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    DNA was then used for whole genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing using it as input into the NexteraXT library preparation kit following the manufacturer’s protocol.
    WGS
    suggested: None
    Microbial community characterization using whole genome shotgun sequencing (WGS) and RNA metatranscriptome: For all metagenomic and metatranscriptomic reads, Trimmomatic v0.3682, with leading and trailing values set to 3 and minimum length set to 36, was used to remove adaptor sequences.
    Trimmomatic
    suggested: (Trimmomatic, RRID:SCR_011848)
    All rRNA reads were then removed from the metatranscriptomic reads using SortMeRNA v4.2.083 with default settings.
    SortMeRNA
    suggested: (SortMeRNA, RRID:SCR_014402)
    Metagenomic and filtered metatranscriptomic reads were mapped to the human genome using Bowtie2 v2.3.4.184 with default settings and all mapping reads were excluded from subsequent microbiome, mycobiome, and virome metagenomic and metatranscriptomic analysis.
    Bowtie2
    suggested: (Bowtie 2, RRID:SCR_016368)
    Taxonomic profiles for all metagenomic and metatranscriptomic samples were generated using Kraken v2.0.785 and Bracken v2.5 [https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.104] run with default settings.
    Kraken
    suggested: (Kraken, RRID:SCR_005484)
    The database used for quantifying taxonomic profiles was generated using a combined database containing human, bacterial, fungal, archaeal, and viral genomes downloaded from NCBI RefSeq on January 8, 2021.
    RefSeq
    suggested: (RefSeq, RRID:SCR_003496)
    Differentially abundant bacterial and viral taxa were identified for the BAL and UA samples groups individually using DESeq2 v1.28.186 with the three group clinical outcome meta-data readouts set as the sample groupings.
    DESeq2
    suggested: (DESeq, RRID:SCR_000154)
    For functional microbial profiling, processed sequencing reads were further depleted of human-mapping reads by removing all reads classified as human by Kraken v2.0.785 using KrakenTools v0.1-alpha (https://github.com/jenniferlu717/KrakenTools).
    KrakenTools
    suggested: None
    Antibiotic resistance genes were quantified in all metagenome and metatranscriptome samples using Salmon v1.3.091 run with --keepDuplicates for indexing and --libtype A -- allowDovetail --meta for quantification.
    Salmon
    suggested: (Salmon, RRID:SCR_017036)
    Transcriptome of BAL cells: RNA-Seq was performed on bronchial epithelial cells obtained by airway brushing, as described92–94, using the Hi-seq/Illumina platform at the NYU Langone Genomic Technology Center (data available at Sequence Read Archive: # PRJNA592149).
    Sequence Read Archive
    suggested: (DDBJ Sequence Read Archive, RRID:SCR_001370)
    Pathway analysis using differentially regulated genes (FDR<0.25) was done using Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, RRID:SCR_0-at least 1 count per million in at least two samples were retained.
    Ingenuity Pathway Analysis
    suggested: (Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, RRID:SCR_008653)

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    Results from LimitationRecognizer: An explicit section about the limitations of the techniques employed in this study was not found. We encourage authors to address study limitations.

    Results from TrialIdentifier: No clinical trial numbers were referenced.


    Results from Barzooka: We did not find any issues relating to the usage of bar graphs.


    Results from JetFighter: We did not find any issues relating to colormaps.


    Results from rtransparent:
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