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Table 1 Subgingival bacterial loadain the periodontal pockets adjacent to the harvested gingival tissue samples

From: Subgingival bacterial colonization profiles correlate with gingival tissue gene expression

Bacterial species

Minimum

25th pctlb

Median

75th pctl

Maximum

AVG

SD

A. actinomycetemcomitans

1.4

8.9

18.1

63.6

2306.9

58.5

154.5

P. gingivalis

1.1

8.8

112.6

442.0

9740.5

379.3

821.5

T. forsythia

3.1

44.4

236.2

758.0

4867.5

543.2

762.9

T. denticola

1.6

12.2

70.2

201.3

3318.5

190.8

360.5

P. intermedia

4.0

88.2

245.4

531.8

7189.3

470.2

762.7

F. nucleatum

14.4

113.1

200.4

348.6

6470.1

270.4

399.5

P. micra

4.6

60.7

118.3

211.4

5606.5

189.1

351.9

C. rectus

1.1

10.3

28.3

76.3

2457.8

89.1

219.1

E. corrodens

1.0

14.3

29.0

71.8

2801.0

74.9

185.6

V. parvula

1.5

17.1

35.8

95.2

3004.0

105.1

238.9

A. naeslundii

3.8

93.5

179.1

408.3

11353.1

434.4

1003.2

  1. aValues are bacterial counts × 10 000, obtained through checkerboard DNA-DNA hybridization, and represent the average load of the two pockets adjacent to each tissue sample.
  2. bPercentile.