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Oral colonization of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods and cocci in irradiated, dentate, xerostomic individuals.
Oral microbiology and immunology - 1 Feb 2001
Leung W K, Jin L J, Yam W C, Samaranayake L P
Abstract excerpt
This study aimed at investigating the oral colonization of aerobic and facultatively anaerobic gram-negative rods and cocci in head- and neck-irradiated, dentate, xerostomic individuals. Subjects were recruited from a nasopharyngeal carcinoma clinic and were segregated into group A: <60 years (n=25, 48+/-6 years, 5+/-5 years post-irradiation) and group B: >or=60 years (n=8, 67+/-4 years, 2+/-2 years...
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