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Study of inter- and intra-individual variations in the salivary microbiota.
BMC genomics - 28 Sept 2010
Lazarevic Vladimir, Whiteson Katrine, Hernandez David, François Patrice, Schrenzel Jacques
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BACKGROUND: Oral bacterial communities contain species that promote health and others that have been implicated in oral and/or systemic diseases. Culture-independent approaches provide the best means to assess the diversity of oral bacteria because most of them remain uncultivable. RESULTS: The salivary microbiota from five adults was analyzed at three time-points by means of the 454 pyrosequencing technology....
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