Composition of the bacterial flora in tonsilloliths

Microbes and Infection

Volumn 8, Issue 9-10, 2006, Pages 2384-2389

  Tsuneishi, Midori ^a   Yamamoto, Tatsuo ^a   Kokeguchi, Susumu ^a   Tamaki, Naofumi ^a   Fukui, Kazuhiro ^a   Watanabe, Tatsuo ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Oral malodor; Tonsillolith; Volatile sulfur compound

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL RNA; SULFUR; VOLATILE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CALCIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EUBACTERIUM; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; GENE AMPLIFICATION; HALITOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEGASPHAERA; MOLECULAR CLONING; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; RNA ISOLATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SELENOMONAS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TANNERELLA; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TONSILLOLITH;

ADULT; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; CALCULI; FEMALE; HALITOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; MIDDLE AGED; PALATINE TONSIL; TONSIL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUSOBACTERIUM; MEGASPHAERA; PORPHYROMONAS; PREVOTELLA; SELENOMONAS; TANNERELLA;

EID: 33749352053     PISSN: 12864579     EISSN: 1769714X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.micinf.2006.04.023     Document Type: Article

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