Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study population.
Fig 1.
Bacterial species showing significant differences in prevalence between the severe ECC group and caries-free group.
Significant differences in prevalence are observed for 13 bacterial species in supragingival plaque (A) and two bacterial species in saliva (B). *p ≤ 0.005, **p ≤ 0.05 according to the Chi-square test.
Fig 2.
Bacterial species showing significant differences in abundance between the severe ECC group and caries-free group.
One and three bacterial species showed significant differences in abundance in supragingival plaque (A) and saliva (B), respectively. *p<0.05 according to the Mann–Whitney Rank Sum Test.
Table 2.
Bacterial species showing significant differences between the severe early childhood caries (SECC) and caries-free groups.
Table 3.
Human Oral Microbe Identification Microarray (HOMIM) score distribution for the 17 bacterial species that showed significant differences between the severe early childhood caries (SECC) and caries-free groups.
Table 4.
The most abundant species in the severe early childhood caries (SECC) and caries-free groups.
Table 5.
Species with the highest prevalances in the severe early childhood caries (SECC) and caries-free groups.