Table 1.
Reference bacterial strains used to test specificity of oligonucleotide probes and their American Type Culture Collection numbers
| Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans 1 | Lactobacillus salivarius (11741) |
| Actinomyces georgiae (49285) | Lactobacillus oris (49062) |
| Actinomyces gerencseriae (23860) | Legionella pneumophila (33153) |
| Actinomyces israelii (12102) | Leptotrichia buccalis (14201) |
| Actinomyces meyeri (35568) | Neisseria mucosa (19696) |
| Actinomyces naeslundii I (12104) | Olsenella uli (49627) |
| Actinomyces naeslundii I (43146) | Parvimonas micra (33270) |
| Actinomyces odontolyticus (17929) | Peptostreptococcus anaerobius (27337) |
| Atopobium rimae (49626) | Porphyromonas endodontalis (35406) |
| Bacteroides fragilis (25285) | Porphyromonas gingivalis (33277) |
| Campylobacter concisus (33237) | Prevotella denticola (35308) |
| Campylobacter curvus (35224) | Prevotella intermedia (25611) |
| Campylobacter gracilis (33236) | Prevotella loescheii (15930) |
| Campylobacter rectus (33238) | Prevotella melaninogenica (25845) |
| Campylobacter showae (51146) | Prevotella nigrescens (33563) |
| Campylobacter sputorum ss sputorum (35980) | Prevotella oris (33573) |
| Campylobacter ureolyticus (33387) | Prevotella tannerae (51259) |
| Capnocytophaga gingivalis (33624) | Propionibacterium acnes I 2 |
| Capnocytophaga ochracea (33596) | Propionibacterium acnes II 2 |
| Capnocytophaga sputigena (33612) | Propionibacterium propionicum (14157) |
| Dialister invisus (GBA27) | Rothia dentocariosa (17931) |
| Eikenella corrodens (23834) | Selenomonas artemidis (43528) |
| Enterococcus aerogenes (13048) | Selenomonas infelix (43523) |
| Enterobacter sakazaki (12868) | Selenomonas noxia (43541) |
| Enterococcus faecalis (10100 & 29212) | Selenomonas sputigena (35185) |
| Escherichia coli (10799) | Slackia exigua (700122) |
| Eubacterium brachy (33089) | Staphylococcus aureus (33591) |
| Eubacterium limosum (8486) | Staphylococcus epidermidis (14990) |
| Eubacterium nodatum (33099) | Staphylococcus warneri (27836) |
| Eubacterium saburreum (33271) | Streptococcus anginosus (33397) |
| Eubacterium saphenum (49989) | Streptococcus constellatus (27823) |
| Filifactor alocis (35896) | Streptococcus gordonii (10558) |
| Fusobacterium necrophorum (25286) | Streptococcus intermedius (27335) |
| Fusobacterium nucleatum ss nucleatum (25586) | Streptococcus mitis (49456) |
| Fusobacterium nucleatum ss polymorphum (10953) | Streptococcus mutans (25175) |
| Fusobacterium nucleatum ss vincentii (49256) | Streptococcus oralis (35037) |
| Fusobacterium periodonticum (33693) | Streptococcus parasanguinis (15912) |
| Fusobacterium naviforme (25832) | Streptococcus pneumoniae (49619) |
| Gemella haemolysans (10379) | Streptococcus salivarius (27945) |
| Gemella morbillorum (27824) | Streptococcus sanguinis (10556) |
| Granulicatella adjacens (49175) | Streptococcus vestibularis (49124) |
| Haemophilus aphrophilus (33389) | Tannerella forsythia (43037) |
| Haemophilus influenza (33533) | Veillonella dispar (17748) |
| Haemophilus paraaphrophilus (29242) | Veillonella parvula (10790) |
| Haemophilus segnis (33393) | Treponema denticola (B1) |
| Lactobacillus acidophilus (4356) | Veilonella atypica (17744) |
| Lactobacillus brevis (14869) | Bifidobacterium denticum (27534) |
| Lactobacillus fermentum (14931) | Moraxella catarrhalis (24240) |
All cultivated strains were obtained from the American Type Culture Collection (ATCC number in parenthesis), except for Treponema denticola (B1), which was obtained from The Forsyth Institute.
1
ATCC strains 43718 and 29523.
2
ATCC strains 11827 and 11828.