Methods of Biotyping of Streptococcus mutans Species with the Routine Test as a Prognostic Value in Early Childhood Caries

Table 5

Comparison of biotypes of both arbitrary and clusterization (using split into 4 clusters) methods.

Biotype from the arbitrary method	Biotype from a dendrogram
	Red		Green		Blue		Yellow
		%		%		%		%
I	0	0.00%	55	77.46%	0	0.00%	7	14.00%
II	9	75.00%	13	18.31%	0	0.00%	1	2.00%
III	1	8.33%	3	4.23%	10	100.00%	36	72.00%
IV	2	16.67%	0	0.00%	0	0.00%	6	12.00%