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Population structure of Streptococcus oralis.
Microbiology (Reading, England) - 1 Aug 2009
Do Thuy, Jolley Keith A, Maiden Martin C J, Gilbert Steven C, Clark Douglas, Wade William G, Beighton David
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus oralis is a member of the normal human oral microbiota, capable of opportunistic pathogenicity; like related oral streptococci, it exhibits appreciable phenotypic and genetic variation. A multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for S. oralis was developed and the resultant data analysed to examine the population structure of the species. Analysis of 113 isolates, confirmed as belonging to the S....
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