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Diversity of spirochetes in endodontic infections.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 May 2009
Sakamoto Mitsuo, Siqueira José F, Rôças Isabela N, Benno Yoshimi
Abstract excerpt
The diversity of spirochetes in primary endodontic infections of teeth with chronic apical periodontitis or acute apical abscesses was investigated using 16S rRNA gene clone library analysis. The prevalences of three common cultivable oral Treponema species were also determined using species-specific nested PCR. All detected spirochetes belonged to the genus Treponema. Overall, 28 different taxa were identified...
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