Table 4.

The differential Taxa of Bacteria Among Three Study Groups

Taxa	Erosive OLP	Non-erosive OLP	Control	p. value
g_Neisseria	1.85 ± 0.71	6.19 ± 3.60	5.75 ± 1.65	< 0.001
g_Abiotrophia	0.18 ± 0.16	0.09 ± 0.04	1.75 ± 1.48	< 0.001
g_Haemophilus	0.78 ± 0.24	2.76 ± 1.02	1.03 ± 0.53	< 0.001
g_Spirochaetes	0.26 ± 0.12	0.08 ± 0.07	0.22 ± 0.15	< 0.001
g_Oribacterium	1.61 ± 0.97	1.99 ± 1.41	0.44 ± 0.59	< 0.01
f_Aerococcaceae	0.42 ± 0.19	0.23 ± 0.08	1.93 ± 1.51	< 0.001
o_Spirochaetales	0.27 ± 0.12	0.08 ± 0.06	0.22 ± 0.15	< 0.01

Data was presented as mean ± SD, which was the log value from the Mean Decrease Gini index of each group, developed from the operational taxonomic unit (OTU)-level abundances (read abundance %) analyzed by Random Forest classification. The higher the value, the less read abundance the bacteria