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Table 7.

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

Genus	SAL				Statistics
	CT (n = 12)	BC (n = 11)	DL (n = 10)	GR (n = 11)	SEM	P-value
Actinomyces	1.21^b	1.90^ab	2.17^ab	2.85^a	0.39	0.003
Corynebacterium	0.06^b	0.15^a	0.59^a	0.26^ab	0.11	0.004
Leucobacter	0.21^b	0.37^ab	0.74^a	0.41^ab	0.13	0.01
Euzebya	0.16^b	0.23^b	0.58^a	0.66^a	0.14	0.004
Capnocytophaga	0.12^c	0.23^bc	0.60^a	0.43^b	0.10	0.0001
Proteocatella	0.03^b	0.12^ab	0.43^a	0.23^a	0.08	0.005
p-75-a5	0.13^b	0.14^ab	0.26^ab	0.36^a	0.08	0.02
Lautropia	0.28^ab	0.08^b	0.47^a	0.35^a	0.11	0.003
Neisseria	0.66^b	1.88^ab	2.51^a	2.11^a	0.49	0.0004
Arcobacter	2.68^a	2.71^b	1.09^b	0.97^b	0.77	0.01
Wolinella	2.55^a	1.36^b	0.74^b	0.46^b	0.43	0.002
Enhydrobacter	9.35^w	3.70^y	3.21^z	4.05^x	1.58	0.047
Moraxella	2.58^b	4.75^ab	5.39^a	5.63^a	1.17	0.02
Treponema	8.11^a	4.84^b	3.36^b	3.83^b	0.68	<0.0001
TG5	0.37^w	0.13^y	0.15^z	0.21^x	0.05	0.01

^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).