The oral cavity as a reservoir of bacterial pathogens for focal infections

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 897-906

  Gendron, Renée ^a   Grenier, Daniel ^a   Maheu Robert, Léo François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bacteremia; Endocarditis; Infection; Oral bacteria; Periodontal disease

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BONE INFECTION; DENTAL CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GRAFT INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEAD AND NECK INFECTION; HUMAN; MOUTH FLORA; MOUTH HYGIENE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TOOTH INFECTION;

BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BONE DISEASES; BRAIN ABSCESS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE, DISEASES; LIVER DISEASES; MOUTH; MOUTH DISEASES; PERIODONTAL DISEASES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; THORACIC DISEASES;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; POSIBACTERIA;

EID: 0033913613     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1286-4579(00)00391-9     Document Type: Review

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