Identification of Microbial and Proteomic Biomarkers in Early Childhood Caries
Figure 2
Importance of bacteria probes according to their individual discriminative power. Species of bacterial species or group are indicated along the -axis. Shaded bars indicate the importance of the species as measured by the Wilcoxon rank-sum score (the score is calculated as , where is the value of the test). A larger importance indicates a larger propensity for the levels of that bacterial specie or group to be differentially expressed in the caries-free versus the caries-active group. S. parasanguinis appears to be the most differentially expressed bacterial marker of caries, followed by Abiotrophia defectiva.
