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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2018 Dec 28;48(2):140–152. doi: 10.1016/j.jogn.2018.12.003

Figure 6.

Figure 6.

A weak, positive correlation between Chao1 (a measure of alpha-diversity) and C-reactive protein (CRP) suggests that increased richness or abundance of microorganisms in the subgingival space triggers an acute-phase response and elevates CRP levels.