Fimbria-mediated coaggregation between human oral anaerobes Treponema medium and Porphyromonas gingivalis

Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 837-845

  Umemoto, Toshihiko ^a   Yoshimura, Fuminobu ^b   Kureshiro, Hidetoshi ^a   Hayashi, Jun Ichiro ^b   Noguchi, Toshihide ^b   Ogawa, Tomohiko ^a  

^a ASAHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AICHI GAKUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coaggregation; Fimbriae; Porphyromonas gingivalis; Treponema medium

Indexed keywords

PYROXYLIN;

ARTICLE; CELL AGGREGATION; FIMBRIA; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPIROCHETE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSPOSON; TREPONEMA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); MICROBIOTA; NEGIBACTERIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; SPIROCHAETALES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA MEDIUM;

EID: 0032887796     PISSN: 03855600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.1999.tb01218.x     Document Type: Article

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