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Prevalence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in Japanese patients with periodontitis.
Journal of periodontal research - 1 Nov 1997
Yamamoto M, Nishihara T, Koseki T, He T, Yamato K, Zhang Y J, Nakashima K, Oda S, Ishikawa I
Abstract excerpt
Oral Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans strains are serologically classified into 5 distinct groups, a to e. We examined the distribution of A. actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in Japanese patients with periodontitis. A total of 157 A. actinomycetemcomitans clinical isolates from diseased sites of 39 patients with periodontitis were serotyped by using serotype-specific rabbit antisera against A....
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