Gut bacterial dysbiosis and instability is associated with the onset of complications and mortality in COVID-19

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    Table 1: Rigor

    EthicsConsent: Ethical Approval: All patients provided written informed consent.
    IRB: The study was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethics committee of the Technical University Hospital of Munich (221/20 S-SR).
    Sex as a biological variablenot detected.
    Randomizationnot detected.
    Blindingnot detected.
    Power Analysisnot detected.

    Table 2: Resources

    Software and Algorithms
    SentencesResources
    Raw FASTQ files were processed using the NGSToolkit (https://github.com/TUM-Core-Facility-Microbiome/ngstoolkit) based on USEARCH 11[27] to generate denoised zero-radiation operational-taxonomic units (zOTUs).
    USEARCH
    suggested: (mubiomics, RRID:SCR_006785)
    Based on out-of-bag error rates and Gini index, the most important features were selected for each iteration using rfcv from the R package randomForest v4.6-14.
    randomForest
    suggested: (RandomForest Package in R, RRID:SCR_015718)

    Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your data.


    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:
    • Thank you for including a conflict of interest statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • Thank you for including a funding statement. Authors are encouraged to include this statement when submitting to a journal.
    • No protocol registration statement was detected.

    Results from scite Reference Check: We found no unreliable references.


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