Table 1. Representation of bacterial phyla in the distal esophagus and subgingival crevice.
| Number (%) of clones
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| Distal esophagus
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Subgingival crevice* (n = 2252)
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| Phylum | A (n = 186) | B (n = 205) | C (n = 264) | D (n = 245) | Total (mean ± SD) (n = 900) | |
| Firmicutes | 132 (70.9) | 128 (62.4) | 178 (67.4) | 188 (76.7) | 626 (69.5 ± 6.0) | 659 (26.1) |
| Bacteroidetes | 35 (18.8) | 61 (29.8) | 49 (18.6) | 37 (15.1) | 182 (20.2 ± 6.4) | 234 (9.3) |
| Actinobacteria | 3 (1.6) | 3 (1.5) | 25 (9.5) | 8 (3.3) | 39 (4.3 ± 3.8) | 275 (11.0) |
| Proteobacteria | 6 (3.2) | 4 (2.0) | 5 (1.9) | 5 (2.0) | 20 (2.2 ± 0.6) | 338 (13.4) |
| Fusobacteria | 6 (3.2) | 7 (3.4) | 2 (0.8) | 5 (2.0) | 20 (2.2 ± 1.2) | 353 (14.0) |
| TM7 | 4 (2.1) | 2 (1.0) | 5 (1.9) | 2 (0.8) | 13 (1.4 ± 0.6) | 34 (1.3) |
| Spirochaetes | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 537 (21.3) |
| Deferribacteres | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 (3.4) |
| Obsidian pool OB11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 (0.0) |
*
From Paster et al. (9)