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Java project on periodontal diseases: a study on transmission of Porphyromonas gingivalis in a remote Indonesian population.
Journal of clinical periodontology - 1 Jun 2007
van Winkelhoff A J, Rijnsburger M C, Abbas F, Timmerman M F, van der Weijden G A, Winkel E G, van der Velden U
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AIM: To study transmission of Porphyromonas gingivalis in a population living in a remote area in Southern Java, Indonesia. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Subgingival plaque samples from 167 subjects with varying degrees of periodontal breakdown were obtained and cultured for the presence of P. gingivalis. After extraction and purification of bacterial DNA, amplified fragment length polymorphism technique was applied to...
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