Mutans streptococci and other caries-associated acidogenic bacteria in five-year-old children in South Africa

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 238-243

  Toi, Cheryl S ^a,b   Cleaton Jones, P E ^a   Daya, N P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b WITS   (South Africa)

Author keywords

5 year old children; Actinomyces; Caries; Lactobacillus; Mutans streptococci; Veillonella

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN;

ACTINOMYCES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; DENTAL CARIES; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LACTOBACILLUS; MICROBIOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOGENICITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SALIVA; SOUTH AFRICA; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; TOOTH PLAQUE; VEILLONELLA; VIRULENCE;

ACTINOMYCES; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL CARIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DMF INDEX; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; LACTOBACILLUS; SALIVA; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VEILLONELLA; VIRULENCE;

EID: 0033179156     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-302X.1999.140407.x     Document Type: Article

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