Transmission of diverse oral bacteria to murine placenta: Evidence for the oral microbiome as a potential source of intrauterine infection

Infection and Immunity

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1789-1796

  Fardini, Yann ^a   Chung, Peter ^a   Dumm, Rochelle ^c   Joshi, Nishiant ^a   Han, Yiping W ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hathaway Brown School   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL TRANSLOCATION; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CAPNOCYTOPHAGA GINGIVALIS; COMMENSAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; EIKENELLA CORRODENS; FEMALE; GEMELLA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GINGIVA; GRANULICATELLA ADIACENS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LEPTOTRICHIA; MICROBIOME; MOUSE; MOUTH FLORA; NEISSERIA; NONHUMAN; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PLACENTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PORPHYROMONAS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREVOTELLA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SALIVA ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STREPTOCOCCUS; VEILLONELLA;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIODIVERSITY; DENTAL PLAQUE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOUTH; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SALIVA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 77950251508     PISSN: 00199567     EISSN: 10985522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/IAI.01395-09     Document Type: Article

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