Preliminary characterization of the oral microbiota of Chinese adults with and without gingivitis

BMC Oral Health

Table 3 Bacterial genera differentially distributed between H and U groups based on the oral "CORE" database.

Genera	H		U		Metastats p-value	Metastats q-value
	mean abundance (%)	std.err	mean abundance (%)	std.err
Streptococcus	22.47%	1.91%	14.32%	1.98%	0.010989	0.0043
Veillonella	8.62%	1.90%	2.33%	0.77%	0.002997	0.0016
Prevotella	6.07%	1.75%	1.27%	0.44%	0.004995	0.0023
Lautropia	5.67%	2.00%	1.33%	0.31%	0.013986	0.0051
Haemophilus	4.15%	1.39%	0.58%	0.21%	0.000999	0.0008
Leptotrichia	4.12%	0.91%	12.48%	2.44%	0.002997	0.001644
Selenomonas	1.73%	0.36%	6.71%	1.70%	0.002997	0.001644
Uncultured_Lachnospiraceae*	1.00%	0.27%	1.97%	0.25%	0.015984	0.0056366
Eubacterium	0.34%	0.08%	1.89%	0.34%	0.000999	0.000822
Cardiobacterium	0.60%	0.17%	1.19%	0.22%	0.038961	0.011658
Peptostreptococcus	0.19%	0.10%	1.42%	0.46%	0.002997	0.001644
Tannerella	0.20%	0.05%	1.36%	0.49%	0.000999	0.000822
Catonella	0.36%	0.10%	1.06%	0.25%	0.006993	0.003139
Synergistes	0.07%	0.03%	1.22%	0.49%	0.001998	0.001409
Filifactor	0.05%	0.04%	0.96%	0.28%	0.000999	0.000822
Peptococcus	0.12%	0.04%	0.49%	0.11%	0.004995	0.002349
Solobacterium	0.11%	0.03%	0.46%	0.22%	0.048951	0.01381
SR1	0.11%	0.04%	0.42%	0.08%	0.000999	0.000822
Syntrophomonas	0.00%	0.00%	0.17%	0.07%	0.000999	0.000822
Johnsonella	0.01%	0.01%	0.14%	0.05%	0.000999	0.000822
Choroflexus	0.01%	0.01%	0.12%	0.07%	0.030969	0.010172
Olsenella	0.01%	0.00%	0.05%	0.02%	0.041958	0.012185
Propionivibrio	0.00%	0.00%	0.05%	0.02%	0.032967	0.010172
Peptoniphilus	0.00%	0.00%	0.04%	0.02%	0.000999	0.000822
Desulfomicrobium	0.00%	0.00%	0.02%	0.01%	0.000999	0.000822
Pseudoramibacter	0.00%	0.00%	0.02%	0.01%	0.000999	0.000822

At genus level, we identified 26 gingivitis-associated taxa in plaque microbiota, which included five gingivitis-depleted taxa (bold) and 21 gingivitis-enriched taxa (without bold); *, not a well-defined genus.

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