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Table 6.

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

Phyla	SUB				Statistics
	CT (n = 12)	BC (n = 11)	DL (n = 10)	GR (n = 10)	SEM	P-value
Actinobacteria	6.18^b	7.76^b	14.6^a	8.18^b	1.11	<0.0001
Bacteroidetes	24.10^a	22.61^ab	17.99^b	22.78^ab	1.84	0.03
Chlorobi	2.16^a	0.83^b	0.28^b	0.43^b	0.26	<0.0001
Firmicutes	16.44^a	11.93^b	8.26^b	13.05^ab	1.06	<0.0001
GN02	0.55^b	1.29^a	1.80^a	1.75^a	0.39	0.001
Proteobacteria	36.43^b	46.22^a	46.37^a	40.24^ab	2.31	0.002
Spirochaetes	3.90^a	1.77^b	0.97^b	2.11^b	0.47	<0.0001
Synergistetes	1.13^a	0.23^b	0.07^b	0.23^b	0.11	<0.0001

^a–bMeans with different superscripts within a row differ by Tukey’s test (P < 0.05).