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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 Nov 28;28(5):509–517. doi: 10.1007/s10096-008-0662-8

Table 2.

Species diversity in the different sample categories, and a comparison between microarray and sequencing resultsa

Samples Comparison
MT MS SS
Range Mean Range Mean Range Mean
Controls
  Control 15–45 26 21–33 26 16–41 28
Patients
  Plaque healthy root 8–43 22 12–33 20 9–35 25
  Plaque carious root 8–35 19 8–30 16 8–31 24
  Dentinal 5–38 22 15–38 22 10–34 21
a

MT = Microarray total (includes samples from 20 Controls and 21 root caries subjects). MS and SS = microarray and sequencing subset, respectively (includes analysis of the same samples from 10 controls and 11 root caries subjects), with sequencing data from Preza et al. (15).