Research Article
Planktonic Growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa around a Dual-Species Biofilm Supports the Growth of Fusobacterium nucleatum within That Biofilm
Table 2
Relative abundance of genera discovered by pyrosequencing within the ear samples.
| | Patient sample | Right ear fluid | Right ear TT | Left ear fluid | Left ear TT |
| Pseudomonas | 61.8† | 3.3 | 66.7 | 11.4 | Fusobacterium | 20.3 | 85.6 | 0.1 | 0.08 | Peptostreptococcus | 10.2 | 3.3 | 27.5 | 42.1 | Leptotrichia | 2.9 | 1.7 | 0.02 | 0 | Catonella | 1.5 | 1.4 | 0.04 | 0 | Parvimonas | 0.9 | 0.4 | 2.8 | 5.7 | Sneathia | 0.6 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | Streptococcus | 0.6 | 0.1 | 2.1 | 29.8 | Prevotella | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | Campylobacter | 0.4 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.01 | Porphyromonas | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | Eubacterium | 0.1 | 0.9 | 0 | 0.07 | Selenomonas | 0 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | Eikenella | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 10.9 | Clostridium | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | Simonsiella | 0 | 0 | 0.04 | 0 |
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anaerobic genera are indicated in bold. †Values indicate percentages of total isolates per sample.
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