Table 2.
Species colonizing a statistically significantly higher percentage of patients with periodontitis than periodontally healthy individuals.
| |
Groups |
|
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Microrganismos | Healthy (n = 17) | Periodontitis (n = 40) | p-value |
| Actinomyces meyeri | 76.5 | 97.5 | 0.0242** |
| Lancefieldella rimae | 23.5 | 80.0 | 0.0002* |
| Cronobacter sakazakii | 58.8 | 100 | <0.0001* |
| Enterobacter cloacae | 41.2 | 80.0 | 0.0060** |
| Enterobacter gergoviae | 5.9 | 67.5 | <0.0001* |
| Enterococcus faecallis | 58.8 | 97.5 | <0.0001* |
| Escherichia coli | 82.4 | 100 | 0.0200** |
| Eubacterium limosum | 0.0 | 82.5 | <0.0001* |
| Filifactor alocis | 47.1 | 90.0 | 0.0010* |
| Fusobacterium necrophorum | 52.9 | 90.0 | 0.0035** |
| Haemophilus influenzae | 0.0 | 75.0 | <0.0001* |
| Spiroplasma ixodetis | 41.2 | 90.0 | 0.0020** |
| Staphylococcus aureus | 58.8 | 95.0 | 0.0018** |
| Staphylococcus warneri | 70.6 | 100 | <0.0001* |
| Streptococcus pyogenes | 82.4 | 100 | 0.0232** |
| Veillonella díspar | 64.7 | 97.5 | 0.0019** |
| Vibrio nereis | 47.1 | 87.5 | 0.0023** |
p < 0.05 means statistically significant differences between groups by the Chi-square test, with (*) and without (**) adjustments for multiple comparisons.