Similarity of bacterial populations in saliva from African-American mother-child dyads

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 3082-3085

  Li, Yihong ^a   Ismail, Amid I ^b   Ge, Yao ^a,c   Tellez, Marisol ^b,d   Sohn, Woosung ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY SCHOOL AND HOSPITAL OF STOMATOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSIDAD EL BOSQUE   (Colombia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL FLORA; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DENTAL CARIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MOUTH FLORA; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHERS; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SALIVA;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 34548704267     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00771-07     Document Type: Article

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