Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

Table 4

Relative abundances of selected tongue coating microbial taxa in 34 gastric cancer subjects and 16 control subjects.

Taxa (phylum, class, order, family, and genus)	Abundance %
	Case	Control
Proteobacteria (phylum)	10.85	28.55	<0.001
Proteobacteria, Betaproteobacteria, Neisseriales, Neisseriaceae, and Neisseria (genus)	4.67	10.97	0.008
Proteobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, Pasteurellales, Pasteurellaceae, and Haemophilus (genus)	1.36	7.46	0.007
Actinobacteria (phylum)	12.32	4.46	<0.001
Fusobacteria, Fusobacteria, Fusobacteriales, Fusobacteriaceae, and Fusobacterium (genus)	1.78	6.43	0.004
Bacteroidetes, Bacteroidia, Bacteroidales, Porphyromonadaceae, and Porphyromonas (genus)	0.34	3.43	0.002

values were based on -tests (two-sided).