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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 12.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009 Apr 17;28(9):1033. doi: 10.1007/s10096-009-0743-3

Table 1.

Distribution of phyla comprising the detected species and clusters in the different sample categories

Phylogenetic group Number of species per site
 Total
Tongue dorsum Buccal fold Hard palate Supragingival Subgingival
Firmicutes 45 58 58 52 55 72
Bacteroidetes 25 23 19 23 20 37
Proteobacteria 19 19 16 20 23 26
Actinobacteria 6 6 9 15 12 19
Fusobacteria 7 4 3 6 6 10
Spirochaetales 1 1 - 3 4 7
TM7 - - - 3 1 3
Synergistes 1 1 1 1 1 1
Total 104 112 106 123 122 175