Resistance of the normal human microflora to mercury and antimicrobials after exposure to mercury from dental amalgam fillings

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 944-950

  Edlund, Charlotta ^b   Björkman, Lars ^b   Ekstrand, Jan ^b   Sandborgh Englund, Gunilla ^b   Nord, Carl Erik ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; AMPICILLIN; CEFOXITIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; MERCURY;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG FECES LEVEL; DRUG RESISTANCE; DRUG SALIVA LEVEL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTESTINE FLORA; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029761428     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/clinids/22.6.944     Document Type: Article

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