Table 2. Alpha diversity indices of the tongue microbiota of 164 community-dwelling adults and 45 allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) recipients on transplantation date in V1-V2 regions of 16S rRNA gene sequencing analysis.
| Community-dwelling adults (n = 164) |
allo-HSCT recipients (n = 45) |
P-valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of OTU | 90.9 ± 18.3 | 41.1 ± 15.6 | <0.001 |
| Phylogenetic diversity | 6.9 ± 1.1 | 4.0 ± 1.1 | <0.001 |
| Shannon diversity index | 3.2 ± 0.3 | 2.1 ± 0.6 | <0.001 |
Values with errors are mean ±SD.
aWilcoxon rank-sum test.