Table 5.
Esophageal species misclassified using amplicon B’ compared with Sanger sequences
| Species | Weight (of 6800) | Species identified by Amplicon B’ |
| Actinomyces naeslundii | 2 | Actinomyces viscosus |
| Atopobium AY959044 | 8 | Atopobium parvulum |
| Bacteroides vulgatus | 1 | Uncultured bacterium |
| Bradyrhizobium japonicum | 1 | Blastobacter denitrificans |
| Campylobacter showae | 4 | Campylobacter |
| Escherichia flexneri | 2 | Shigella sonnei |
| Haemophilus aegyptius | 17 | Haemophilus influenzae |
| Haemophilus haemolyticus | 33 | Haemophilus |
| Lactobacillus gasseri | 2 | Lactobacillus johnsonii |
| Leptotrichia wadeii | 7 | Leptotrichia shahii turn |
| Neisseria macaca | 25 | Uncultured bacterium |
| Prevotella melaninogenica | 288 | Uncultured bacterium |
| Pseudoramibacter | 1 | Uncultured bacterium |
| Streptococcus infantis | 77 | Streptococcus mitis |
| Total | 468 |