Characterization of maternal mutans streptococci transmission in an African American population

Dental Clinics of North America

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 87-101

  Li, Yihong ^a   Dasanayake, Ananda P ^a   Caufield, Page W ^a   Elliott, Ronald R ^b   Butts III, James T ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b Jefferson County Department of Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; DELIVERY; DENTAL CARIES; HUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH SURVEY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOTHER; NEGRO; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

BACTERIAL DNA; CHLORHEXIDINE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHLORHEXIDINE; DENTAL CARIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DMF INDEX; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 0038352284     PISSN: 00118532     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0011-8532(02)00058-7     Document Type: Review

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