Article
Mercury released from dental "silver" fillings provokes an increase in mercury- and antibiotic-resistant bacteria in oral and intestinal floras of primates.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy - 1 Apr 1993
Summers A O, Wireman J, Vimy M J, Lorscheider F L, Marshall B, Levy S B, Bennett S, Billard L
Abstract excerpt
In a survey of 640 human subjects, a subgroup of 356 persons without recent exposure to antibiotics demonstrated that those with a high prevalence of Hg resistance in their intestinal floras were significantly more likely to also have resistance to two or more antibiotics. This observation led us...
Topics
- Animals
- Anti-Bacterial Agents
- Bacteria
- Dental Amalgam
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Feces
- Humans
- Intestines
- Macaca fascicularis
- Male
- Mercury
- Mercury Radioisotopes
- Mouth
- Phenotype