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Global and regional landscape of biogeographical diversity of Streptococcus mutans: Epidemiological insight from multilocus sequence typing.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM - 1 Jun 2026
Zhai Yingying, Li Zhenzhen, Zhang Yifan, Qian Jiawei, Wang Qi, Lu Chao, Liu Shanshan
Abstract excerpt
Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) is a major cariogenic bacterium. However, its geographic population structure remains poorly characterized. This study included 728 clinical strains collected by our team (339 from Bengbu and 389 from Guangzhou), of which 648 were newly isolated. Following sequence typing, 137 strains could not be assigned a sequence type (ST) due to genetic variations, whereas the remaining 591...
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