Table 2.
Relative abundance of genera discovered by pyrosequencing within the ear samples.
| Genus∗ | Patient sample | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Right ear fluid | Right ear TT | Left ear fluid | Left ear TT | |
| Pseudomonas | 61.8† | 3.3 | 66.7 | 11.4 |
| Fusobacterium | 20.3 | 85.6 | 0.1 | 0.08 |
| Peptostreptococcus | 10.2 | 3.3 | 27.5 | 42.1 |
| Leptotrichia | 2.9 | 1.7 | 0.02 | 0 |
| Catonella | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.04 | 0 |
| Parvimonas | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 5.7 |
| Sneathia | 0.6 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 |
| Streptococcus | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 29.8 |
| Prevotella | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 |
| Campylobacter | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.01 |
| Porphyromonas | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 |
| Eubacterium | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.07 |
| Sel e nomonas | 0 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 |
| Eikenella | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 10.9 |
| Clostridium | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 |
| Simonsiella | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0 |
∗Strict anaerobic genera are indicated in bold. †Values indicate percentages of total isolates per sample.