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BMC Microbiology

Table 3 The core microbiome of porcine tonsils

Phylum	% of total	Class	% of total	Order	% of total	Family	% of total	Genus	% of total
Proteobacteria	73.4	Gammaproteobacteria	69.8	Pasteurellales	56.0	Pasteurellaceae	60.2	Actinobacillus	37.0
								Haemophilus	6.6
								Pasteurella	16.1
				Pseudomonadales	11.8	Moraxellaceae	12.3	Alkanindiges	12.0
				Enterobacteriales	2.0	Enterobacteriaceae	2.2
		Betaproteobacteria	3.2	Burkholderiales	0.3
				Neisseriales	2.8	Neisseriaceae	3.0
		Alphaproteobacteria	0.3
Firmicutes	17.8	Clostridia	14.3	Clostridiales	14.3	Peptostreptococcaceae	2.2	Peptostreptococcus	2.6
						Veillonellaceae	4.4	Veillonella	3.2
		Bacilli	3.5	Lactobacillales	3.4	Streptococcaceae	0.5	Streptococcus	0.6
Fusobacteria	5.6	Fusobacteria	5.6	Fusobacteriales	5.6	Fusobacteriaceae	5.6	Fusobacterium	7.0
Actinobacteria	1.2	Actinobacteria	1.2	Actinomycetales	0.9
Bacteroidetes	0.8	Bacteroidia	0.3	Bacteroidales	0.3
5/17 phyla identified	98.8	8/27 classes identified	98.2	10/34 orders identified	97.4	8/61 families identified	90.4	8/101 genera identified	85.1

NOTE: Almost half of the Clostridiales could not be assigned at the family level, and > 92% of the Neisseriaceae could not be assigned to a genus.

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