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Novel antibiofilm chemotherapy targets exopolysaccharide synthesis and stress tolerance in Streptococcus mutans to modulate virulence expression in vivo.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Dec 2012
Falsetta Megan L, Klein Marlise I, Lemos José A, Silva Bruno B, Agidi Senyo, Scott-Anne Kathy K, Koo Hyun
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Fluoride is the mainstay of dental caries prevention, and yet current applications offer incomplete protection and may not effectively address the infectious character of the disease. Therefore, we evaluated the effectiveness of a novel combination therapy (CT; 2 mM myricetin, 4 mM tt-farnesol, 250 ppm of fluoride) that supplements fluoride with naturally occurring, food-derived, antibiofilm compounds. Treatment...
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