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Those in the immdry eye group had a distinct microbial composition compared with those in the dry eye group. The combination of the genera <jats:italic>Corynebacterium<\/jats:italic> and <jats:italic>Pelomonas<\/jats:italic> distinguished subjects in the immdry eye group from those in the dry eye group, with an area under the curve of 0.73 (95% CI\u00a0=\u00a00.62\u20130.84). For the same bacteria, the correlations between microbe abundance and the ocular surface parameters were different in the two groups. 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