TABLE 1.
Bacterial genomic copies per milligram of biopsy tissue of each bacterial species at each M stage
| Lesion stage | Mean no. of genomic copies/mg biopsy tissue ± SDa |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| T. phagedenis | T. pedis | T. medium | F. necrophorum | Fusobacterium sp. | P. levii | B. pyogenes | |
| M0 | 2.28 ± 12.5 A | 0.333 ± 0.829 A | 2.87 ± 17.2 A | 0.023 ± 0.110 A | 0.004 ± 0.029 A | 0.181 ± 0.579 A | 0.005 ± 0.026 A |
| M1 | 223 ± 468 B | 417 ± 965 AB | 69.1 ± 160 A | 1.24 ± 2.79 B | 0.426 ± 0.708 B | 9.32 ± 11.4 BC | 0.700 ± 1.14 B |
| M2 | 4.56 × 103 ± 8.42 × 103 C | 3.19 × 103 ± 8.08 × 103 B | 14.8 ± 55.8 A | 36.0 ± 118 B | 34.6 ± 89.2 BC | 186 ± 520 B | 8.88 ± 24.8 B |
| M3 | 5.05 × 103 ± 9.78 × 103 ABC | 3.70 × 104 ± 7.39 × 104 B | 1.36 × 103 ± 2.72 × 103 A | 37.3 ± 73.6 B | 69.5 ± 123 C | 708 ± 1.34 × 103 BC | 56.6 ± 99.6 B |
| M4 | 1.22 × 103 ± 3.05 × 103 B | 1.10 × 103 ± 4.80 × 103 B | 1.55 ± 5.84 A | 17.2 ± 69.0 B | 35.6 ± 94.8 BC | 112 ± 348 C | 6.11 ± 20.3 B |
| M4.1 | 1.15 × 103 ± 2.87 × 103 BC | 15.2 ± 29.9 AB | 12.4 ± 31.8 A | 4.70 ± 14.1 B | 7.59 ± 21.2 BC | 147 ± 384 BC | 7.60 ± 22.5 B |
a
Different letters within a column indicate a significant difference (P < 0.05).