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Periodontal infectogenomics.
Journal of medical microbiology - 1 Oct 2009
Nibali Luigi, Donos Nikos, Henderson Brian
Abstract excerpt
Multicellular creatures consist of a symbiosis between the host and its colonizing bacteria. The oral cavity may contain as many as 19,000 bacterial phylotypes, while each individual presents a proportion of these microbes. Infectogenomics studies the interaction between host genetic variations and composition of the microbiota. This review introduces the concept of periodontal infectogenomics, defined as the...
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