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Table 5.

Oral bacterial phyla (relative abundance, %) that were significantly different between treatments present in SUP plaque samples from healthy adult dogs consuming dental chews or diet alone

Phyla	SUP				Statistics
	CT (n = 12)	BC (n = 11)	DL (n = 10)	GR (n = 11)	SEM	P-value
Actinobacteria	5.01^c	7.56^b	11.50^a	8.06^b	0.70	<0.0001
Bacteroidetes	24.57^a	26.29^a	20.62^b	27.06^a	1.44	0.001
Chlorobi	2.49^a	1.20^ab	0.55^c	0.88^b	0.31	<0.0001
Firmicutes	12.30^a	8.99^b	5.11^c	9.45^ab	0.87	<0.0001
GN02	0.56^c	1.32^ab	2.35^a	0.96^bc	0.29	0.0001
SR1	1.95^b	3.06^ab	3.60^a	2.36^ab	0.55	0.02
Spirochaetes	1.71^a	1.01^b	0.48^b	0.64^b	0.18	<0.0001
Synergistetes	0.98^a	0.27^b	0.15^b	0.30^b	0.07	<0.0001
TM7	0.02^z	0.05^y	0.06^w	0.06^x	0.01	0.001
Tenericutes	0.07^a	0.10^ab	0.02^bc	0.02^c	0.02	0.001

^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 (P < 0.05).