Serotype classification of Streptococcus mutans and its detection outside the oral cavity

Future Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 891-902

  Nakano, Kazuhiko ^a   Ooshima, Takashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biosynthesis; Cardiovascular system; Classification; Distribution; Molecular approach; Oral cavity; Polysaccharide; Serological approach; Serotype; Streptococcus mutans

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL POLYSACCHARIDE; SCLEROPROTEIN;

BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BACTERIUM ADHERENCE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CARBOHYDRATE SYNTHESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CELL SURFACE; DNA DETERMINATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNODIFFUSION; MOUTH CAVITY; NONHUMAN; PERIODONTITIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEROTYPING; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

BACTEREMIA; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; POLYSACCHARIDES, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 70349227580     PISSN: 17460913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/fmb.09.64     Document Type: Review

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