Marginal and subgingival plaque - A natural habitat of Tropheryma whipplei?

Infection

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-91

  Zinkernagel, A S ^a   Gmur R ^b   Fenner, L ^a   Schaffner, A ^a   Schoedon, G ^a   Schneemann, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; BETA GLOBIN; RNA 16S; RNA 23S;

ADULT; AGED; AMPLICON; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GINGIVA PLAQUE; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; INTESTINE LIPODYSTROPHY; MALE; MELTING POINT; MOUTH CAVITY; PERIODONTITIS; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPECIES HABITAT; TROPHERYMA WHIPPELII;

ACTINOMYCETALES; ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DENTAL PLAQUE; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; FEMALE; GINGIVA; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 12444325194     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-002-3095-9     Document Type: Article

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