Relationship of serotype, leukotoxin gene type and lysogeny in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to periodontal disease status

European Journal of Oral Sciences

Volumn 105, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 310-317

  Tinoco, Eduardo Muniz Barretto ^a,b,f   Stevens, Roy ^c   Haubek, Dorte ^d   Lai, Chern Hsiung ^e   Balachandran, Sukumar ^c   Preus, Hans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b GAMA FILHO UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^f Klinikk for Periodonti   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage; Localized juvenile periodontitis; Periodontal status; Virulence factors

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL TOXIN; BACTERIUM ANTIBODY; CYTOTOXIN; EXOTOXIN; LEUKOTOXIN; MEMBRANE ANTIGEN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; CHILD; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOBLOTTING; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYSOGENIZATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PATHOGENICITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; PERIODONTIUM; PROMOTER REGION; SEROTYPING; VIROLOGY; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; ANTIGENS, SURFACE; BACTERIAL TOXINS; BACTERIOPHAGES; BASE COMPOSITION; CHILD; CYTOTOXINS; EXOTOXINS; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; LYSOGENY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PERIODONTITIS; PERIODONTITIS, JUVENILE; PERIODONTIUM; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROTYPING; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0031202253     PISSN: 09098836     EISSN: 16000722     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1997.tb00246.x     Document Type: Article

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