Table 2.
Presence of S. mutans, its molecular characterization, and presence of Candida spp.
| Variable | Groups | All subjects (n = 143) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CF (n = 73) n (%) |
CE-NR (n = 45) n (%) |
CR (n = 25) n (%) |
P value* | ||
| S. mutans presence | 11 (15.1) | 14 (31.1) | 20 (80.0) | < .0001 | 45 (31.5) |
| Serotype distribution | |||||
| Ser c only | 6 (8.2) | 8 (17.8) | 15 (60.0) | < .0001 | 29 (20.3) |
| Ser e only | 1 (1.4) | 2 (4.4) | 1 (4.0) | .56 | 4 (2.8) |
| Ser f only | 0 (0.0) | 1 (2.2) | 0 (0.0) | .33 | 1 (0.7) |
| Ser k only | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | |
| Ser c + e | 1 (1.4) | 3 (6.7) | 0 (0.0) | .15 | 4 (2.8) |
| Ser e + k | 3 (4.1) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (16.0) | .01 | 7 (4.9) |
| Genes coding for Collagen Binding Proteins | |||||
| Cbp (cnm + cbm) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 7 (28.0) | < .0001 | 7 (4.9) |
| cnm | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 5 (20.0) | .0002 | 6 (4.2) |
| cbm | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (8.0) | .03 | 2 (1.4) |
| Candida spp. presence | 29 (39.7) | 16 (35.6) | 20 (80.0) | .0007 | 65 (45.5) |
| Candida albicans presence | 15 (20.6) | 9 (20.0) | 17 (68.0) | < .0001 | 41 (28.7) |
| Presence of more than one species of Candida | 9 (12.3) | 2 (4.4) | 5 (20.0) | .30 | 16 (11.2) |
| Co-infection with S. mutans and C. albicans | 7 (9.6) | 7 (15.6) | 17 (68.0) | < .0001 | 31 (21.7) |
CF caries free, CE-NR caries experienced—no recurrence, CR active caries—recurrence.
*P-values based on Cochran-Mantel–Haenszel test of general association, controlling for age by stratification.