Modeling shifts in microbial populations associated with health or disease

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 3678-3684

  Dalwai, F ^a   Spratt, D A ^a   Pratten, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASES; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HEALTH; LASERS; MICROSCOPIC EXAMINATION;

A MICROCOSM MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; MICROBIAL COMPOSITION;

MICROBIOLOGY;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

DENTAL HEALTH; DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; HEALTH IMPACT; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; ARTICLE; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GINGIVITIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; IN VITRO STUDY; MICROBIAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; MICROCOSM; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS; THEORETICAL MODEL; TOOTH PLAQUE;

ACTINOMYCES; BACTERIA; BIOFILMS; CULTURE MEDIA; DENTAL PLAQUE; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SALIVA; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

ACTINOMYCES; ACTINOMYCES NAESLUNDII; NEGIBACTERIA; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS SOBRINUS;

EID: 33646563397     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.72.5.3678-3684.2006     Document Type: Article

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