Microbiological and immunological characteristics of young Moroccan patients with aggressive periodontitis with and without detectable Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans JP2 infection

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Cross-sectional and longitudinal studies identify the JP2 clone of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans as an aetiological agent of aggressive periodontitis (AgP) in adolescents of northwest African descent. To gain information on why a significant part of Moroccan adolescents show clinical signs of periodontal disease in the absence of this pathogen we performed comprehensive mapping of the subgingival...

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