New insights into the emerging role of oral spirochaetes in periodontal disease

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 502-512

  Visser, M B ^a   Ellen, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Oral; Pathogenesis; Periodontitis; Review; Spirochaete; Treponema; Virulence

Indexed keywords

ALVEOLAR BONE LOSS; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; HUMAN; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; SPIROCHETE; SPIROCHETE INFECTION; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

SPIROCHAETA; SPIROCHAETES; TREPONEMA; TREPONEMA DENTICOLA;

EID: 79952729069     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2011.03460.x     Document Type: Review

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