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. 2021 Mar 31;203(6):2747–2760. doi: 10.1007/s00203-021-02300-y

Table 1.

Summary of studies in which non-oral bacteria have been isolated in patients with systemic or oral diseases

Diseases Non-oral bacteria Study group/study type Age Prevalence of non-oral bacteria (%) Specimen (s) collected Country Referencesa
Periodontitis

GNRsb

S. aureus

PGc: 535 patients

A cross-sectional study

19–70 years

34.9%

6.2%

Periodontal pockets Sweden Dahlen and Wikström (1995)

GNRs

Pseudomonas

PG: 80 patients

A cross-sectional study

17–58 years

18.8%

10.0%

Periodontal pockets Brazil Barbosa et al. (2001)
GNRs

PG: 80 patients

A cross-sectional study

35–60 years 20% Periodontal pockets Brazil Gonçalves et al. (2007b)
H. pylori

PG: 169 patients

CGd: 56 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

41 ± 14

34.3 ± 12

50% (PG)

11.4 (CG)

Subgingival plaque samples Brazil Souto and Colombo (2008b)
E. faecalis

PG: 169 patients

CG: 56 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

41 ± 14

34.3 ± 12

47.8% (PG)

17.1% (CG)

Subgingival plaque samples Brazil Souto and Colombo (2008a)
S. aureus

PG: 106 patients

A cross-sectional study

 ≥ 18 years 24.6% Subgingival plaque samples Switzerland Fritschi et al. (2008)
Staphylococcus spp. PG: 82 patients 18–70 years 42.7% Subgingival plaque samples Argentina Cuesta et al. (2010)
GNRs

PG: 63 patients

CG: 45 healthy subjects

A prospective cohort

33.29 ± 7.79

43.95 ± 8.97

16.7% (PG)

9.3% (CG)

Periodontal pockets Colombia Martínez-Pabón et al. (2010)
E. faecalis

PG: 32 patients

A prospective longitudinal study

≥ 18 years 40.6% Root canal samples China Zhu et al. (2010)

P. aeruginosa

Acinetobacter spp.

PG: 169 patients

CG: 55 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

40.2 ± 14

31.1 ± 11

52.2% (PG), 11.4% (CP)

56.5% (PG), 31.4% (CP)

Periodontal pockets Brazil Souto et al. (2014)
GNRs

PG: 102 patients

A cross-sectional study

48 ± 13.2 42.9% Subgingival plaque samples Netherlands Van Winkelhoff et al. (2016)

GNRs

P. aeruginosa

PG: 42 patients

CG: 42 healthy subjects

Case–control study

43.48 ± 12.46

29.36 ± 8.99

83.3% (PG), 71.4% (CG)

30.9% (PG), 28.5% (CG)

Subgingival plaque samples India Ranganathan et al. (2017)
Dental caries

E. faecalis,

E. faecium

PG: 34 caries active subjects

CG: 28 caries free subjects

A cross-sectional study

4–12 years

46.9% (PG), 7% (CG)

9.5% (PG), 7% (CG)

Saliva Tunisia Kouidhi et al. (2011)
S. aureus

PG: 105 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

45.84 ± 15.82 20% Dental abscess, caries and saliva Tunisia Merghni et al. (2014)
Root canal infection E. faecalis

PG: 100 patients

CG: 100 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

32–72 years

11% (PG)

1% (CG)

Oral rinse samples USA Sedgley et al. (2004)
E. faecalis

PG: 41 patients

A cross-sectional study

42.6 ± 15.3 10%

Oral rinse

samples

USA Sedgley et al. (2006)

E. faecalis

Staphylococcus spp

Pseudomonas spp

A. baumannii

PG: 50 patients

A cross-sectional study

23–76 years

16%

2%

2%

2%

Root canal samples Sweden Vidana et al. (2011)
Cystic fibrosis (CF) P. aeruginosa

PG: 31 patients

CG: 31 healthy subjects

5–29 years

45.16% (PG)

3.22 (CG)

Oral cavity samples Canada Komiyama et al. (1985)
P. aeruginosa

PG: 5 patients

CG: 5 healthy subjects

Case–control study

16–34 years

12–27 years

100% (PG)

0% (CG)

Sputum samples France Rivas Caldas et al. (2015)
Orofacial granulomatosis and Crohn’s disease S. aureus

PG: 450 patients

A prospective cohort

13–29 years 0.8% Oral rinse samples UK Gibson et al. (2000)
Oral cancer

Staphylococcus spp.

P. aeruginosa

PG: 46 patients

CG: 37 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

67.4 ± 10.3

71.3 ± 9.9

43.7% (PG), 56.3% (CG)

57.1% (PG), 42.9% (CG)

Saliva and surgical scar Japan Yamashita et al. (2013)

S. aureus

E. coli

S. epidermidis

PG: 40 patients

A cross-sectional study

/

23.2%

15.62%

12.5%

Swabs over the cancerous lesion India Panghal et al. (2011)
HIV

S. aureus

P. aeruginosa

K. pneumoniae

PG: 14 periodontitis patients

A cross-sectional study

25–50 years

6.8%

6.7%

6.7%

Subgingival plaque samples USA Rams et al. (1991)
GNRs

PG: 31 periodontitis patients

CG: 32 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

37.3 ± 9.3

22.8 ± 8.5

74.2% (PG)

18.8% (CG)

Subgingival plaque samples Colombia Botero et al. (2007b)

S. aureus

S. epidermidis

E. cloacae

PG: 45 HIV subjects

CG: 45 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

22–66 years

23–66 years

92.4% (PG), 54% (CG)

47% (PG),61.8% (CG)

22.3% (PG), 18.1% (CG)

Oral rinse samples Brazil Back-Brito et al. (2011)

P. mirabilis

S. aureus

P. aeruginosa

PG: 605 HIV subjects

A cross-sectional study

1–60 years

16.4%

11.3%

8.6%

Oral lesions samples Uganda Agwu et al. (2015)

Coliforms

Pseudomonas spp.

S. aureus

Enterococci

PG: 221 HIV patients

PG: 30 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

8–69 years

27–47 years

15% (PG), 3% (CG)

11% (PG), 7% (CG)

14%(PG), 17% (CG)

2% (PG), 0% (CG)

Dorsum of the Tongue Thailand Arirachakaran et al. (2016)

Pseudomonas spp.

Enterobacter spp.

Klebsiella spp.

Aeromonas spp.

PG: 255 Thai HIV-positive

adults on Highly active anti-retrovirus therapy (HAART)

CG: 30 healthy subjetcs

A cross-sectional study

/

9.01% (PG), 3.33% (CG)

4.31% (PG), 6.66% (CG)

5.49% (PG), 23.3% (CG)

3.92% (PG), 6.66% (CG)

Dorsum of the tongue, gingiva, periodontal pocket Thailand Arirachakaran et al. (2019)
Rheumatoid arthritis S. aureus

PG: 111 patients

CG: 83 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

58.7 ± 11.64

55.9 ± 12.91

12.5% (PG)

3.6% (CG)

Oropharynx samples USA Jacobson et al. (1997)

S. epidermidis

S. aureus

PG: 25 patients

CG: 50 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

21–82 years

18–54 years

84% (PG), 88% (CG)

56% (PG), 24% (CG)

Oral rinse samples and tongue swabs UK Jackson et al. (1999)
Parkinson’s disease GNRs

PG: 50 patients

A cross-sectional study

71–90 years 32% A swab around the tonsillar area and soft palate UK Gosney et al. (2003)
Burns, skin, grafting and lacerations Staphylococcus spp.

PG: 28 patients

A cross-sectional study

14–84 years 53.57% Supragingival plaque and oral rinse samples UK Smith et al. (2003a)
Heart disease

Staphylococcus spp.

Pseudomonas spp.

Acinetobacter spp.

PG: 30 patients undergoing myocardium revascularisation surgery (Pre-surgery results)

A prospective cohort

62.66 ± 4.01

85.7%

83.8%

53.3%

Saliva and subgingival plaque samples Brazil Zuanazzi et al. (2010)
Dyspepsia H. pylori

PG: 30 patients

CG: 20 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

46.2 ± 11.44

44.5 ± 11.36

60% (PG)

15% (CG)

Subgingival plaque samples India Agarwal and Jithendra (2012)
Endocarditis E. faecalis

PG:1 patient with arrhythmia

A case report

67 years old 100% (PG) A swab from Gingival mucosa Japan Okui et al. (2015)
Head and neck cancer Gram-negative bacilli S. aureus

PG: 110 patients

CG:50 healthy subjects

A prospective case–control

20–80 years

63.6% (PG), 2% (CG)

8% (PG), 0% (CG)

Saliva India Soni et al. (2017)
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) S. epidermidis

PG: 21 end-stage CKD adult patients

CG:14 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

46.8 ± 9.7

42.2 ± 14.5

89.5% (PG)

92.3% (CG)

Saliva Portugal Simões-Silva et al. (2018)
P. aeruginosa

PG: 1 HIV-positive subject

A case report

6 years old 100% Biopsy of the gingival tissue Brazil Souza et al. (2018)
Chronic nail biting GNRs

PG: 60 Nail biting subjects

CG: 30 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

11 ± 3.0

12 ± 3.5

75% (PG)

40% (CG)

Saliva India Chinnasamy et al. (2019)
Liver transplantation E. faecalis

PG: 100 patients

CG: 100 healthy subjects

A cross-sectional study

10–67 years

10–77 years

2% (PG)

1% (CG)

Saliva Iran Ghapanchi et al. (2019)

aInclusion and exclusion criteria and search strategy are in the supplementary file

bGNRs Gram-negative rods

cPG Patients group

dCG Control group