Evaluation of the microbiota of primary endodontic infections using checkerboard DNA-DNA hybridization

Oral Microbiology and Immunology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 390-397

  Sassone, L ^a,c   Fidel, R ^a   Figueiredo, L ^b   Fidel, S ^a   Faveri, M ^b   Feres, M ^b  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b GUARULHOS UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^c NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bacteria; DNA probes; Endodontics; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CAMPYLOBACTER GRACILIS; DENTAL CARIES; DNA DNA HYBRIDIZATION; ENDODONTICS; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUBACTERIUM; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; LEPTOTRICHIA BUCCALIS; NEISSERIA MUCOSA; NONHUMAN; PORPHYROMONAS ENDODONTALIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PREVOTELLA NIGRESCENS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; VEILLONELLA PARVULA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAMPYLOBACTER; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; DENTAL PULP NECROSIS; DNA PROBES; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; EUBACTERIUM; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM NUCLEATUM; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEPTOTRICHIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEISSERIA MUCOSA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PORPHYROMONAS ENDODONTALIS; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; PREVOTELLA MELANINOGENICA; PREVOTELLA NIGRESCENS; STREPTOCOCCUS ANGINOSUS; TREPONEMA; VEILLONELLA;

EID: 35548951378     PISSN: 09020055     EISSN: 1399302X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302X.2007.00376.x     Document Type: Article

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