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4,587 questions · 5,761 findings · 495 reviews

No studies found 1,011 · 17.5%GRADE not reported 1,797 · 31.2%Very low 1,100 · 19.1%Low 1,052 · 18.3%Moderate 649 · 11.3%High 152 · 2.6%

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Oral vs topical antibiotics

Active trachoma · people (any age) with active trachoma

Oral showed no clear difference in active trachoma Clinical assessment: active trachoma defined as TF,… compared with topical antibiotic (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Oral vs topical antibiotics

Antibiotic resistance · people (any age) with active trachoma

The review found no eligible studies for this question.

1 finding from 1 review
  • Antibiotics for trachoma 2019 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
    no estimate extracted
    Studies not reported
    No studies found

Dental caries (carious oral microbiome) vs Caries-free / healthy oral microbiome

Differential microbial abundance / taxa predictive of caries · Individuals providing oral (saliva/supragingival plaque) 16S rRNA microbiome samples; 2016 samples from 19 studies (mixed children and…

A group of genera/species (notably Selenomonas, Aggregatibacter, Actinomyces, Treponema) was predictive of caries, whereas Streptococcus was not (ungraded).

1 finding from 1 review
  • Meta-analysis of caries microbiome studies can improve upon disease prediction outcomes. 2022 All outcomes
    Oral cavity microbiome (saliva and supragingival plaque samples); pooled across 19 international studies
    Mean-decrease-accuracy discriminating taxa: Capnocytophaga HMT-338, Lactobacillus panis, Treponema HMT-230, Bifidobacterium longum, Delftia acidovorans, Staphylococcus schleiferi; higher log2FC in caries: Selenomonas HMT-146, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Actinomyces HMT-896, Treponema HMT-257; Streptococcus not predictive
    19 studies · 2016 participants
    GRADE not reported

Dental caries (carious oral microbiome) vs Caries-free / healthy oral microbiome

Alpha diversity (Chao1, Observed, Shannon) · Adults providing oral (saliva/supragingival plaque) 16S rRNA microbiome samples

In adults, caries-vs-health alpha diversity differed for the Shannon index but not Chao1/Observed (ungraded).

1 finding from 1 review