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. 2016 Oct 22;21(5):1871–1881. doi: 10.1007/s00784-016-1980-3

Table 2.

Discriminant OTUs for groups with or without fungi as identified by linear discriminant analysis (LDA) effect size (LEfSe)

OTU nr Taxonomy (SILVA) Taxonomy (HOMD) Fungal presence Abundance (%) Prevalence (%) LDA effect size p value (LEfSe) p value (post hoc)
OTU 7 Porphyromonas Porphyromonas endodontalis Negative 1.4 40.0 4.1 0.015 0.015
OTU 15 Prevotella Prevotella nigrescens Negative 1.4 68.9 3.8 0.011 0.011
OTU 43 Fretibacterium Fretibacterium fastidiosum Negative 0.4 60.0 3.7 0.002 0.002
OTU 109 Prevotella Prevotella sp. oral taxon 526 Negative 0.2 40.0 3.5 0.003 0.003
OTU 6 Lactobacillus Lactobaccilus gasseri Positive 3.9 46.7 4.5 0.001 0.001
OTU 9 Lactobacillus Lactobacillus paracasei Positive 3.0 42.2 4.3 0.005 0.005
OTU 143 Actinomyces Actinomyces sp. oral taxon 448 Positive 0.1 46.7 4.1 0.003 0.003
OTU 33 Lactobacillus Lactobacillus vaginalis Positive 1.2 48.9 4.0 <0.001 <0.001
OTU 47 Lactobacillus Lactobacillus ultunensis Positive 0.7 48.9 4.0 0.005 0.005
OTU 253 Streptococcus Streptococcus salivarius/vestibularis Positive 0.1 28.9 3.8 0.001 0.001
OTU 70 Bifidobacterium Bifidobacterium dentium Positive 0.2 37.8 3.6 <0.001 <0.001
OTU 37 Propionibacterium Propionibacterium acidifaciens Positive 0.8 46.7 3.6 0.003 0.003

Post hoc analysis was performed using the Mann-Whitney U test, with an FDR adjusted p value of q* = 0.05. Taxonomy was assigned to the most abundant sequence of the OTU using the SILVA database (genus level) and the HOMD (species level)