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Comparative analysis of salivary bacterial microbiome diversity in edentulous infants and their mothers or primary care givers using pyrosequencing.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Cephas Kimberly D, Kim Juhee, Mathai Rose Ann, Barry Kathleen A, Dowd Scot E, Meline Brandon S, Swanson Kelly S
Abstract excerpt
Bacterial contribution to oral disease has been studied in young children, but there is a lack of data addressing the developmental perspective in edentulous infants. Our primary objectives were to use pyrosequencing to phylogenetically characterize the salivary bacterial microbiome of edentulous infants and to make comparisons against their mothers. Saliva samples were collected from 5 edentulous infants (mean...
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