<i>Streptococcus mutans-</i>associated bacteria in dental plaque of severe early childhood caries

Abstract

<i>S. mutans, Streptococcus mutans</i>; CF, caries-free; SECC, severe early childhood caries; ECC, early childhood caries; rRNA, ribosome RNA; qPCR, Quantitative real-time PCR; OTUs, operational taxonomic units; ANOVA, analysis of variance; LDA, Linear discriminant analysis; LEfSe, Linear discriminant analysis effect size; COG, Groups of proteins; NMDS, Non-MetricMulti-Dimensional Scaling; IL-1β, interleukin -1β; IL-6, interleukin-6; IL-8, interleukin-8; IL-10, interleukin-10.