The role of an uncommon type of oral streptococcus sanguis in the etiology of Behcet's disease

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 59-63

  Tsuchida, Mitsuru ^a   Mineshita, Satoru ^b   Okonogi, Hiroshi ^c   Sugimori, Kenji ^d   Hoshi, Keiko ^e   Horiuchi, Toshitaka ^f   Wang, Li Man ^b   Fujimoto, Edward K ^g  

^a Japan   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Vaccine Center   (Japan)

^d TOHO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g Tokyo Eisei Byoin   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behcet's disease; Causal role; Oral disease; Oral Str. sanguis uncommon type

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; BEHCET DISEASE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLAGEN DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MALE; MOUTH DISEASE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS SANGUINIS;

EID: 0030707498     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02931965     Document Type: Review

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