Table 1.

Mean relative proportions (%) of bacterial phyla and genera in the oral bacteriome of participants with allergic rhinitis (AR), AR with comorbid asthma (ARAS), asthma (AS) and healthy controls (CT).

	Mean relative proportions (%)				Wilcoxon test significance
	AR	ARAS	AS	CT	AR-CT	ARAS-CT	AS-CT
Phylum
Actinobacteriota	5.5	5.8	4.5	8.6	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Bacteroidota	15.3	14.8	13.0	11.9	ns	ns	ns
Firmicutes	43.6	46.1	50.3	55.9	0.009	0.002	ns
Fusobacteriota	10.3	9.4	8.0	5.8	<0.001	<0.001	0.03
Proteobacteria	24.5	22.8	23.7	17.1	0.009	ns	ns
Genus
Actinomyces	1.9	2.1	2.2	4.5	<0.001	<0.001	<0.001
Alloprevotella	2.4	2.2	3.2	2.2	ns	ns	ns
Fusobacterium	3.9	3.9	3.4	2.2	<0.001	<0.001	0.03
Gemella	5.3	5.8	9.0	4.4	ns	0.001	ns
Haemophilus	15.3	13.7	15.9	11.5	0.009	ns	ns
Leptotrichia	5.9	5.2	3.7	3.5	<0.001	<0.001	ns
Neisseria	5.3	5.0	4.6	3.8	0.002	0.004	ns
Porphyromonas	3.1	3.2	1.9	1.8	<0.001	<0.001	ns
Prevotella	3.3	3.1	3.1	2.1	0.009	<0.001	ns
Prevotella_7	2.9	3.0	2.2	4.2	ns	ns	ns
Rothia	2.5	2.5	1.6	3.2	ns	ns	ns
Streptococcus	25.5	27.6	29.1	33.2	0.009	0.002	ns
Veillonella	8.4	8.1	7.6	13.8	<0.001	<0.001	0.017

p-values for significant pairwise comparisons (Wilcoxon test) are also displayed. ns, not significant.