Table 2.
Taxa for which oligonucleotide probes have been validated
| Cultivated | Uncultivated/Unrecognized |
|---|---|
| Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans 1,2 | Acidaminococcus [G-1] oral taxon 135 |
| Actinomyces gerencseriae 1,2 | Acidaminococcus [G-1] oral taxon 148 |
| Actinomyces odontolyticus 1,2 | Bacteroidetes [G-2] sp. oral taxon 274 |
| Campylobacter concisus 2 | Capnocytophaga sp. oral taxon 326 |
| Campylobacter rectus 1,2 | Capnocytophaga sp. oral taxon 329 |
| Capnocytophaga sputigena 1,2 | Capnocytophaga sp. oral taxon 336 |
| Eikenella corrodens 1,2 | Desulfobulbus sp. oral taxon 041 1 |
| Eubacterium brachy 2 | Mitsuokella sp. oral taxon 131 1 |
| Fusobacterium nucleatum ss. polymorphum 1,2 | Neisseria sp. oral taxon 020 |
| Gemella haemolysans 2 | Peptostreptococcaceae [11][G-7] sp. oral taxon 081 1 |
| Haemophilus parainfluenza | Peptostreptococcaceae [13][G-1] sp. oral taxon 113 |
| Parvimonas micra 1,2 | Porphyromonas sp. oral taxon 279 |
| Porphyromonas endodontalis 2 | Prevotella sp. oral taxon 292 |
| Porphyromonas gingivalis 1,2 | Prevotella sp. oral taxon 306 1 |
| Prevotella denticola 2 | Streptococcus sp. oral taxon 055 |
| Prevotella intermedia 2 | Streptococcus sp. oral taxon 057 |
| Selenomonas noxia 1,2 | Streptococcus sp. oral taxon 066 |
| Shuttleworthia satelles | Tannerella sp. oral taxon 286 1 |
| Streptococcus anginosus 1 | TM7 [G-1] sp. oral taxon 346 1 |
| Streptococcus gordonii 1,2 | |
| Streptococcus mutans 1,2 | |
| Streptococcus parasanguinis 1,2 | |
| Tannerella forsythia 2 | |
| Treponema denticola |
A subset of the probes employed were ‘combination probes’, in that they could not distinguish species/phylotypes. This was the case for S. anginosus/gordonii; C. rectus/concisus and Streptococcus sp. OT055/057/066.
1
Taxa for which probes were used in the pilot clinical study.
2
Taxa for which probes were used in the experiments to correlate bacterial cell counts and picomolar levels of complementary sequences.