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While the determinants of periodontitis have been extensively investigated in other populations, such studies are lacking in South Africa, which represents a high-risk population. Therefore, this study was conducted to characterize the subgingival bacterial biodiversity in the periodontal pockets of patients with periodontitis in a Western Cape population.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Materials &amp;amp; methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Pooled subgingival plaque samples were collected from the deepest pocket\/crevices of five periodontitis cases and five controls using sterile paper points. Illumina MiSeq paired-end sequencing and QIIME2 software were employed for sequence filtration and analysis. Several alpha and beta-diversity metrics assessed biodiversity within-sample and population structure between different microbiota datasets, respectively. Statistical significance for alpha diversity was tested using the Kruskal\u2013Wallis H test (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;lt;\u20090.05), and beta diversity differences were evaluated using PERMANOVA. Data visualization, including beta diversity plots, was conducted with the Phyloseq package in R.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Beta-diversity measures revealed significant differences between periodontitis cases and controls (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value\u2009=\u20090.04), whereas alpha-diversity was higher in cases, though without statistical significance (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value\u2009\u2265\u20090.05). Cases group showed high relative abundance of <jats:italic>Fusobacterium<\/jats:italic> (16%), <jats:italic>Porphyromonas<\/jats:italic> (10%), and <jats:italic>Treponema<\/jats:italic> (9%), while the periodontally healthy controls were dominated by <jats:italic>Streptococcus<\/jats:italic> (20%), <jats:italic>Fusobacterium<\/jats:italic> (15%), and <jats:italic>Veillonella<\/jats:italic> (10%), with <jats:italic>g_Streptococcus<\/jats:italic> showing a significant difference (<jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>-value\u2009=\u20090.008). Differential abundance analysis revealed distinct bacterial genera enriched in cases (<jats:italic>Bulleidia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Peptoanaerobacter<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Phocaeiola<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>W5053<\/jats:italic>) and controls (<jats:italic>Abiotrophia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Haemophilus<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Lautropia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Rothia<\/jats:italic>, <jats:italic>Streptococcus<\/jats:italic>). Sample-specific variations included higher levels of <jats:italic>Porphyromonas<\/jats:italic> (15%) in grade B and <jats:italic>Fusobacterium<\/jats:italic> (20%) in grade C.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p>This exploratory study highlights distinct bacterial communities associated with periodontitis in a South African population. 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