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Host and bacterial phenotype variation in adhesion of Streptococcus mutans to matched human hosts.
Infection and immunity - 1 Nov 2012
Esberg Anders, Löfgren-Burström Anna, Ohman Ulla, Strömberg Nicklas
Abstract excerpt
The commensal pathogen Streptococcus mutans uses AgI/II adhesins to adhere to gp340 adsorbed on teeth. Here we analyzed isolates of S. mutans (n = 70 isolates) from caries and caries-free human extremes (n = 19 subjects) by multilocus sequence typing (MLST), AgI/II full-length gene sequencing, and adhesion to parotid saliva matched from the strain donors (nested from a case-control sample of defined gp340 and...
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