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The relationship between cigarette smoking and the tongue microbiome in an East Asian population
1 Jan 2020
Abstract excerpt
Background: The oral microbiome, which consists of various habitats, has been shown to be influenced by smoking. However, differences in the tongue microbiomes of current and former smokers, as well as their resultant functional consequences, have rarely been investigated in East Asian populations.Methods: We used 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing of tongue-coating samples obtained from East Asian subjects who were...
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