Table 1.
Relative sequence abundances (16S rDNA) of bacterial taxa in reference biofilm and diseased dental samplesab
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| Assigned taxonomy (phylum–family–genus) | Health | Disease |
| Actinobacteria Actinomycetaceae Actinomyces | 26.1±4.3 | 3.3±0.3 |
| Firmicutes Streptococcaceae Streptococcus | 20.2±5.9 | 3.8±0.2 |
| Actinobacteria Corynebacteriaceae Corynebacterium | 13.3±1.3 | 2.2±0.4 |
| Fusobacteria Fusobacteriaceae Fusobacterium | 5.2±1.5 | 38.3±2.6 |
| Bacteroidetes Flavobacteriaceae Capnocytophaga | 4.0±0.6 | 3.8±0.7 |
| Proteobacteria Neisseriaceae Neisseria | 3.5±0.6 | 4.0±0.8 |
| Firmicutes Veillonellaceae Veillonella | 3.0±0.2 | 2.8±0.4 |
| Proteobacteria Burkholderiaceae Lautropia | 2.5±0.4 | 7.0±1.4 |
| Proteobacteria Campylobacteraceae Campylobacter | 2.4±0.5 | 3.5±0.3 |
| Fusobacteria Fusobacteriaceae Leptotrichia | 2.3±0.4 | 0.7±0.1 |
| Firmicutes Carnobacteriaceae Granulicatella | 2.2±0.7 | 0.1±0.0 |
| Proteobacteria Pasteurellaceae Haemophilus | 2.0±0.3 | 1.3±0.3 |
| Firmicutes Veillonellaceae Selenomonas | 1.9±0.5 | 1.3±0.2 |
| Bacteroidetes Porphyromonadaceae Porphyromonas | 1.3±0.4 | 0.1±0.0 |
| Bacteroidetes Prevotellaceae Prevotella | 1.2±0.3 | 8.9±1.1 |
| Proteobacteria Neisseriaceae Kingella | 1.1±0.0 | 0.2±0.0 |
| Proteobacteria Neisseriaceae Eikenella | 1.0±0.3 | 0.5±0.1 |
| TM7 Unclassified | 1.0±0.2 | 0.5±0.1 |
| Actinobacteria Propionibacteriaceae Propionibacterium | 1.0±0.3 | 0.1±0.1 |
| Firmicutes Gemellaceae Gemella | 0.9±0.3 | 0.1±0.0 |
| Actinobacteria Micrococcaceae Rothia | 0.7±0.1 | 0.3±0.1 |
| Proteobacteria Pasteurellaceae Aggregatibacter | 0.5±0.1 | 2.0±0.3 |
| Spirochaetes Spirochaetaceae Treponema | 0.2±0.1 | 2.4±0.3 |
| Proteobacteria Cardiobacteriaceae Cardiobacterium | 0.2±0.0 | 0.6±0.1 |
| Bacteroidetes Porphyromonadaceae Tannerella | 0.2±0.1 | 0.7±0.1 |
| Synergistes Dethiosulfovibrionaceae TG5 | 0.0±0.0 | 3.4±0.5 |
| Actinobacteria Coriobacteriaceae Atopobium | 0.0±0.0 | 0.5±0.1 |
| Firmicutes Peptostreptococcaceae Filifactor | 0.0±0.0 | 0.5±0.2 |
a
Only OTUs of >0.5% abundance in at least one sample group are shown.
b
Taxa are arranged from highest to lowest abundance in the reference biofilm data set.