Microbiome richness and diversity in saliva of participants
We next investigated if the oral microbiome composition correlated with the vaccine responses noted in these participants. Baseline saliva samples were sequenced to address this question by subjecting salivary DNA to Illumina 16S rRNA gene sequencing (V3-V4 region). Output data in ASV-classified format were used for all downstream analysis. As shown, the salivary microbiome composition of healthy and PLHIV at genus level showed an overall dominance of The oral microbiome richness and diversity and interpersonal variations in High- 