Table 2.

Bacterial species used for specificity tests, P-values, probe specific (sSNR) and not specific (nsSNR) signal-to-noise ratios.

Probe set	Species	P-value	sSNR	nsSNR
S. oralis and rel.	S. oralis	7.20 × 10–9	168.65	1.61
S. mutans	S. mutans	2.49 × 10-6	60.06	1.61
L. acidophilus	L. acidophilus	9.24 × 10−7	51.45	1.56
Gemella	G. morbillorum	2.04 × 10−4	100.48	1.52
Staphylococcus	S. aureus	1.81 × 10−4	55.16	1.23
P. micra	P. micra	2.85 × 10−6	16.77	1.38
Selenomonas	S. noxia	1.17 × 10−6	100.34	1.71
Veillonella	V. parvula	4.27 × 10−6	127.11	1.45
Leptotrichia	L. buccalis	1.76 × 10−8	12.94	0.89
Fusobacterium	F. nucleatum subsp. polymorphum	5.56 × 10−11	279.57	1.67
Propionibacterium	P. acidifaciens	3.34 × 10−12	143.65	1.32
Actinomyces	A. odontolyticus	5.14 × 10−5	42.00	1.23
T. denticola and rel.	T. denticola	2.31 × 10−8	34.89	1.50
Eikenella	E. corrodens	2.17 × 10−6	14.85	1.36
H. parainfluenzae and rel.	H. parainfluenzae	2.87 × 10−4	44.89	1.17
A. actinomycetemcomitans	A. actinomycetemcomitans	4.77 × 10−5	14.02	1.34
Campylobacter	C. sputorum subsp. sputorum	3.43 × 10−5	40.55	1.32
Capnocytophaga	C. sputigena	3.60 × 10−4	22.72	1.09
P. gingivalis	P. gingivalis	1.36 × 10−6	30.22	1.15
P. denticola and rel.	P. denticola	3.86 × 10−5	25.14	1.34
P. intermedia and rel.	P. intermedia	2.37 × 10−7	26.10	1.33
P. melaninogenica and rel.	P. melaninogenica	1.09 × 10−6	17.57	1.22