Table 2.

Collapsing of the 31 identified OTUs into the respective mock community species based on BLAST identity score against the 16S rRNA gene database at NCBI.

No.	Species	OTU ID	BLAST Identity (%)
1	Acinetobacter baumannii	OTU_12	100
2	Actinomyces odontolyticus	OTU_8	99
3	Bacillus cereus	OTU_2	100
4	Bacteroides vulgatus	OTU_14	100
		OTU_24	99
		OTU_31	97
5	Clostridium beijerinckii	OTU_1	100
		OTU_27	99
6	Deinococcus radiodurans	OTU_19	98
		OTU_29	99
7	Enterococcus faecalis	OTU_10	100
		OTU_28	98
8	Escherichia coli	OTU_18	100
		OTU_23	99
9	Helicobacter pylori	OTU_11	100
		OTU_26	98
10	Lactobacillus gasseri	OTU_9	100
11	Listeria monocytogenes	OTU_5	100
12	Neisseria meningitidis	OTU_16	100
		OTU_30	98
13	Propionibacterium acnes	OTU_3	100
14	Pseudomonas aeruginosa	OTU_17	100
		OTU_25	99
15	Rhodobacter sphaeroides	OTU_15	100
16	Staphylococcus aureus	OTU_6a	100
17	Staphylococcus epidermidis	OTU_20b	99
		OTU_21b	99
		OTU_22b	99
18	Streptococcus agalactiae	OTU_7c	100
19	Streptococcus mutans	OTU_4d	100
20	Streptococcus pneumoniae	OTU_13e	100

^aBLAST identity score against S. epidermidis = 98%.

^bBLAST identity score against S. aureus = 97%.

^cBLAST identity score against S. mutans < 97% and S. pneumoniae < 97%.

^dBLAST identity score against S. agalactiae < 97% and S. pneumoniae < 97%.

^eBLAST identity score against S. mutans < 97% and S. agalactiae < 97%.