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. 2021 May 17;3:38. doi: 10.1186/s42523-021-00100-9

Table 3.

Oral bacterial genera (relative abundance, %) present in plaque (supragingival and subgingival plaque) and saliva samples from healthy adult dogs

Source Statistics
Genera Saliva
(n = 26)
Subgingival
(n = 25)
Supragingival
(n = 26)
SEM P-values
Actinomyces 1.8b 1.8b 3.1a 0.245 < 0.0001
Corynebacterium 0.4c 2.6b 4.5a 0.590 < 0.0001
Leucobacter 0.1b 0.4b 1.6a 0.155 < 0.0001
Euzebya 0.3z 0.5y 0.6x 0.069 0.0008
Bacteroides 1.0a 0.7b 1.1ab 0.137 0.0453
Paludibacter 0.1c 0.5a 0.3b 0.053 < 0.0001
Parabacteroides 0.3a 0.1b 0.2ab 0.040 0.0015
Porphyromonas 23.1a 22.6a 16.4b 1.341 < 0.0001
Tannerella 0.3b 0.6a 0.5a 0.039 < 0.0001
Prevotella 8.3a 1.5b 2.1b 0.459 < 0.0001
Capnocytophaga 0.2c 0.5b 0.9a 0.099 < 0.0001
Bergeyella 0.3c 0.5b 2.0a 0.204 < 0.0001
SHD-231 0.9a 0.3b 0.4b 0.139 0.0016
Streptococcus 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.070 0.2643
Clostridium 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.017 0.6114
Catonella 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.052 0.7442
Peptococcus 1.3a 2.3a 0.6b 0.239 < 0.0001
Filifactor 0.6b 1.3a 0.7b 0.102 < 0.0001
Peptostreptococcus 0.2b 0.4a 0.1c 0.059 < 0.0001
Proteocatella 0.1b 0.8a 0.5a 0.111 < 0.0001
Oscillospira 0.4ab 0.5a 0.1b 0.096 0.0094
Schwartzia 0.04b 0.16a 0.06a 0.019 < 0.0001
Fusibacter 1.6b 3.3a 2.0b 0.205 < 0.0001
Anaerovorax 0.1z 0.3x 0.2y 0.033 < 0.0001
Helcococcus 0.2a 0.1b 0.1b 0.031 < 0.0001
Parvimonas 0.5a 0.5a 0.2b 0.098 < 0.0001
p-75-a5 0.2a 0.1b 0.2a 0.029 < 0.0001
Fusobacterium 6.3b 7.7a 4.6c 0.599 0.0002
Leptotrichia 0.04b 0.95a 0.17b 0.139 < 0.0001
Lautropia 0.1b 0.2b 0.7a 0.107 < 0.0001
Lampropedia 0.5b 0.7b 2.4a 0.201 < 0.0001
Neisseria 0.8b 2.3a 2.5a 0.332 < 0.0001
Propionivibrio 0.1b 0.1ab 0.2a 0.021 0.0049
Desulfobulbus 0.1c 0.5b 1.6a 0.197 < 0.0001
Desulfomicrobium 0.7z 2.5x 1.5y 0.213 < 0.0001
Desulfovibrio 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.094 0.2526
Arcobacter 2.8a 1.2b 2.4a 0.560 0.0031
Campylobacter 2.5a 2.5a 1.5b 0.186 < 0.0001
Wolinella 0.8 0.7 0.4 0.130 0.2005
Pasteurella 0.7a 0.4b 0.8a 0.093 < 0.0001
Enhydrobacter 3.7b 3.0b 6.5a 0.536 < 0.0001
Moraxella 2.8b 3.3b 7.2a 0.637 < 0.0001
Treponema 6.9x 5.6y 1.3z 0.517 < 0.0001
TG5 0.3z 1.1x 0.6y 0.110 < 0.0001
Acholeplasma 2.6a 0.2b 0.1c 0.186 < 0.0001

a−cMeans with different superscripts within a row differ by Tukey’s test (p < 0.05)

w−zMeans with different superscripts within a row differ by Wilcoxon’s test ( < 0.05)