BIOME-Preserve: A novel storage and transport medium for preserving anaerobic microbiota samples for culture recovery
Fig 5
Ability of BIOME-Preserve to maintain anaerobe viability over time.
A) The number of species recovered from fresh human stool and from BIOME-Preserve after 72 and 120 hours. B) Species cultured from BIOME-Preserve tubes stratified by relative abundance in fresh stool. C) Species cultured from stool that were also cultured from BIOME-Preserve tubes after 72 hours and 120 hours, stratified by fold-change in relative abundance. The majority of cultured species had less than a 1-fold drop in relative abundance.