Tonsillolith: Not just a stone but a living biofilm

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 316-321

  Stoodley, Paul ^a,b   deBeer, Dirk ^c   Longwell, Mark ^b   Nistico, Laura ^b   Hall Stoodley, Luanne ^a,b   Wenig, Bruce ^d   Krespi, Yosef P ^e  

^a ALLEGHENY SINGER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d ST LUKE S ROOSEVELT HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; SUCROSE;

ACIDIFICATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENITRIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; SALIVA; TONSIL DISEASE; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLOLITH;

ADULT; BACTERIA, ANAEROBIC; BIOFILMS; CALCULI; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MICROELECTRODES; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; OXYGEN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PALATINE TONSIL; PHARYNGEAL DISEASES; TONSILLECTOMY;

EID: 68949212918     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.05.019     Document Type: Article

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