Table 5.

Interspecies correlations in healthy subjects.

	Aa	Pg	Tf	Td	Fn	Pi	Pn	Pm	Cr	En	Ec	Sm	Smu	Ss	Lc	Sa	Total
Aa		0.96 *	−0.81	0.24	0.55		0.98 *	0.92 *	0.56			0.18					−0.34
Pg			−0.03	0.22	0.02	−0.04	0.12	0.22	0	0.57 *	−0.32	−0.3 *	0.14	0.71	−0.05		−0.07
Tf				0.11	−0.67 *	−0.13	−0.34	−0.12	−0.13	0.05	−0.49	−0.88 *	−0.29	0.11	−0.31		0.05
Td					−0.12	0.55	0.07	0.62 *	−0.09	0.78 *	−0.34	−0.33 *	−0.08	−0.17	0.4		−0.16
Fn						0.26	0.33 *	−0.1	0.24	−0.12	0.28	0.43 *	0.38 *	0.33	0.19		0.01
Pi							0.75 *	0.21	0.56 *	0.58		0.15	−0.16				0.36
Pn								0.23	0.4 *	−0.22	−0.14	0.15	−0.15	−0.26	−0.17		−0.23
Pm									0.22	−0.09	−0.32	−0.11	−0.08	−0.37	0.11		−0.12
Cr										−0.32	−0.22	0.12	−0.18	0.95 *	0.22		−0.14
En												−0.13	0.31		0.3		0.45
Ec												0.2	0.18		−0.23		−0.24
Sm													0.12	−0.2	0.24		0.04
Smu															0.01		−0.23
Ss																	−0.49
Lc																	−0.12
Sa
Total

Abbreviations: Aa, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans; Pg, Porphyromonas gingivalis; Tf, Tannerella forsythia; Td, Treponema denticola; Fn, Fusobacterium nucleatum; Pi, Prevotella intermedia; Pm, Parvimonas micra; Cr, C. Campylobacter rectus; En, Eubacterium nodatum; Ec, Eikenella corrodens; Sm, S. Streptococcus mitis; Smu, Streptococcus mutans; Lc, Lactobacillus casei; Sa, Staphylococcus aureus; Pn, Prevotella nigrescens; Ss, Streptococcus sobrinus; and * p < 0.05.