Research Article
Prevalence of Clinical Periodontitis and Putative Periodontal Pathogens among South Indian Pregnant Women
Table 2
Detection rates and association with periodontal disease of ten periodontopathogenic bacteria.
| | Bacterial agent | Overall detection rate
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(%) | Detection in clinical gingivitis
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(%) | Detection in clinical periodontitis
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(%) | value
OR (95% CI) |
| | P. gingivalis | 139 (36) | 44 (30) | 23 (56) | 0.004
2.6 (1.35–5.15) | | E. corrodens | 110 (28) | 43 (29) | 16 (39) | 0.11
1.7 (0.87–3.43) | | A. actinomycetemcomitans | 109 (28) | 41 (28) | 16 (39) | 0.08
1.8 (0.92–3.64) | | C. rectus | 103 (26) | 48 (33) | 10 (24) | 0.04
1.8 (1.01–3.17) | | P. nigrescens | 81 (21) | 30 (20) | 18 (44) | <0.001
3.9 (1.97–7.95) | | T. denticola | 73 (19) | 22 (15) | 13 (32) | 0.01
2.63 (1.2–5.51) | | P. intermedius | 43 (11) | 15 (10) | 10 (24) | 0.005
3.2 (1.42–7.46) | | T. forsythia | 30 (8) | 10 (6) | 2 (5) | 0.54
0.5 (0.12–2.4) | | C. ochraceum | 24 (6) | 7 (4) | 4 (10) | 0.42
1.59 (0.5–4.98) | | C. sputigens | 5 (1) | 2 (1) | 0 | — |
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