Quantitative detection of Porphyromonas gingivalis fimA genotypes in dental plaque

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 232, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 31-37

  Van Der Ploeg, Jan R ^a   Giertsen, Elin ^b   Lüdin, Beat ^a   Mörgeli, Christian ^a   Zinkernagel, Annelies S ^c   Gmür, Rudolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bacterial fimbriae; Periodontitis; Porphyromonas gingivalis

Indexed keywords

FIMBRIA PROTEIN; PROTEIN FIMA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIMBRIA; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ADULT; AGED; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL PLAQUE; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FIMBRIAE PROTEINS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; GENES, BACTERIAL; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIODONTITIS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS;

EID: 1542321181     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(04)00064-3     Document Type: Article

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