Caries-Exclusive and Health-Associated Taxa in the Peruvian Pediatric Salivary Microbiome Identified by Full-Length Nanopore 16S Sequencing: Implications for Ecological Modulation of Dental Caries
Dental caries is the most prevalent chronic noncommunicable disease in Peruvian schoolchildren (>70%). Full-length 16S Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) sequencing enables species-level resolution unachievable with conventional Illumina V3–V4 platforms, critical for resolving intrageneric diversity in the dominant oral...