Real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction Quantification of Porphyromonas gingivalis and Tannerella forsythia in Primary Endodontic Infections

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1518-1524

  Saito, Daniel ^a   Coutinho, Luiz Lehmann ^b   Borges Saito, Cristiane Pereira ^a   Tsai, Siu Mui ^b   Höfling, José Francisco ^a   Gonçalves, Reginaldo Bruno ^a  

^a Piracicaba Dental School   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Bacteria; endodontic infection; Porphyromonas gingivalis; real time PCR; Tennerella forsythia

Indexed keywords

ADHESIN; ARGINGIPAIN, PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; BACTERIAL ANTIGEN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; BSPA PROTEIN, BACTEROIDES; CYSTEINE PROTEINASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COUNT; BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTION; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; TOOTH PULP; TOOTH PULP DISEASE;

ADHESINS, BACTERIAL; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BACTEROIDACEAE INFECTIONS; BACTEROIDES; BACTEROIDES INFECTIONS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CYSTEINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; DENTAL PULP CAVITY; DENTAL PULP NECROSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS GINGIVALIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349970535     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2009.08.005     Document Type: Article

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