Oral bacteria resistant to mercury and to antibiotics are present in children with no previous exposure to amalgam restorative materials

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 223, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 107-111

  Ready, Derren ^a   Qureshi, Fizza ^a   Bedi, Raman ^a   Mullany, Peter ^a   Wilson, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amalgam; Erythromycin; Mercury; Oral microflora; Tetracycline; Viridans streptococci

Indexed keywords

AMALGAM; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ERYTHROMYCIN; MERCURY CHLORIDE; PENICILLIN G; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; TOOTH PLAQUE;

STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS;

EID: 0038207760     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00351-3     Document Type: Article

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