Prevalence of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans serotypes in Japanese patients with periodontitis

Journal of Periodontal Research

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 676-681

  Yamamoto, Matuo ^a,b   Nishihara, Tatsuji ^a   Koseki, Takeyoshi ^a   He, Tao ^a,b   Yamato, Kenji ^a,b   Zhang, Yi Jie ^a   Nakashima, Keisuke ^b   Oda, Shigeru ^b   Ishikawa, Isao ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans; Genotypes; Isolates; Serotypes

Indexed keywords

VIRUS ANTIGEN;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ADULT; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; IMMUNOLOGY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MICROBIOLOGY; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RABBIT; SEROTYPING;

ACTINOBACILLUS ACTINOMYCETEMCOMITANS; ACTINOBACILLUS INFECTIONS; ADULT; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, VIRAL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNODIFFUSION; JAPAN; PERIODONTITIS; PERIODONTITIS, JUVENILE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RABBITS; SEROTYPING;

EID: 0031266706     PISSN: 00223484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0765.1997.tb00578.x     Document Type: Article

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