Table 1.

Differentially abundant taxa between the drooling and mouthwash samples confirmed by ANCOMBC analysis.

Level	Taxon	W	p value	Adj p value
Phylum	Cyanobacteria	5.167	< 0.001	< 0.001
	GN02	3.435	0.001	0.003
	Proteobacteria	4.573	< 0.001	< 0.001
Genus	Acetobacter	4.631	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Acinetobacter	3.558	< 0.001	0.040
	Actinobacillus	4.112	< 0.001	0.004
	Bordetella	5.149	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Caulobacter	19.667	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Corynebacterium	5.114	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Cupriavidus	13.701	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Haemophilus	6.222	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Lactobacillus	9.672	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Listeria	3.668	< 0.001	0.027
	Methylobacterium	4.799	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Methylotenera	10.828	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Microbacterium	3.805	< 0.001	0.016
	Olsenella	4.471	< 0.001	0.001
	Oribacterium	4.033	< 0.001	0.006
	Pseudomonas	5.920	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Rothia	3.567	< 0.001	0.039
	Staphylococcus	4.915	< 0.001	< 0.001
	Xanthomonas	4.251	< 0.001	0.002

Statistical significance was determined as an adjusted p value < 0.05.

W generalized log-scaled fold change, Adj p-value adjusted p value.