Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/bmri/volume-2015/173729/figures/173729.fig.001a.svgz" name="173729.fig.001a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>Patient with thick tongue coating</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/bmri/volume-2015/173729/figures/173729.fig.001b.svgz" name="173729.fig.001b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>Patient with thin tongue coating</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="c"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/bmri/volume-2015/173729/figures/173729.fig.001c.svgz" name="173729.fig.001c" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(c) </b>Healthy control with thin tongue coating</td></tr></table>

<div>Images of tongue coatings analysed by a tongue manifestation acquisition instrument. (a) A patient with a typical thick tongue coating, (b) a patient with a thin tongue coating, and (c) a healthy control with a thin tongue coating are shown.</div>

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Figure 1: Variations of Tongue Coating Microbiota in Patients with Gastric Cancer 