Research Article

Efficacy of 0.5% Levofloxacin and 5.0% Povidone-Iodine Eyedrops in Reducing Conjunctival Bacterial Flora: Metagenomic Analysis

Table 1

The number of reads, OTUs, and species in each group.

GroupReadsOTUs expression
TotalAverage ± SDTotalAverage ± SD

184037327108.81 ± 6223.9476740124754.87 ± 5206.97
280886526092.42 ± 6681.1174026623879.55 ± 6114.27
377164524891.77 ± 5657.0971930323203.32 ± 4941.69

OTUs, operational taxonomic units (based on 0.03 cutoff) found in each sample; SD, standard deviation.