Altered oral microbiota in chronic hepatitis B patients with different tongue coatings

Figure 3 The most differentially abundant taxa in the chronic hepatitis B yellow and white tongue coating patients. A: Comparison of the relative abundance at the bacterial family and genus levels, the marks of significance from left to right in parentheses are the CHB yellow tongue coating patients vs the healthy controls, the CHB yellow tongue coating patients vs the CHB white tongue coating patients and the CHB white tongue coating patients vs the healthy controls. ^aP < 0.05, ^bP < 0.01, “−” indicates no significant difference based on the Metastats analysis; B: Taxonomic cladogram of the LEfSe analysis of the 16S sequences. (Red) healthy-control enriched taxa; (Green) CHB white tongue coating patients-enriched taxa; and (Blue) CHB yellow tongue coating patients-enriched taxa. C: LDA scores of enriched taxa in the healthy controls (Red), CHB white tongue coating patients (Green) and CHB yellow tongue coating patients (Blue). LDA: Linear discriminant analysis.