Oral microbial communities: Biofilms, interactions, and genetic systems

Annual Review of Microbiology

Volumn 54, Issue , 2000, Pages 413-437

  Kolenbrander, P E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DENTAL AND CRANIOFACIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial cell interactions; Communication; Oral bacteria genetic systems; Spatial organization

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ACTINOBACILLUS; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANIMAL CELL; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BIOFILM; CELL INTERACTION; EIKENELLA; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE EXPRESSION; LASER MICROSCOPY; MICROBIAL GENETICS; MODEL; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; STREPTOCOCCUS; TREPONEMA;

BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; DENTAL PLAQUE; ECOSYSTEM; MOUTH;

EID: 0033757759     PISSN: 00664227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.micro.54.1.413     Document Type: Review

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