Bacterial diversity in oral samples of children in Niger with acute noma, acute necrotizing gingivitis, and healthy controls

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Bolivar, Ignacio ^a,b   Whiteson, Katrine ^b   Stadelmann, Benoît ^a,b   Baratti Mayer, Denise ^b   Gizard, Yann ^b   Mombelli, Andrea ^b,c   Pittet, Didier ^b   Schrenzel, Jacques ^b  

^a Institut für Angewandte Immunologie   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S; BACTERIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; CHILD; CILINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GINGIVITIS; HUMAN; MALE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MOLECULAR LIBRARY; NIGER; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PREVOTELLA INTERMEDIA; RNA SEQUENCE; STOMATITIS; TAXONOMY; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; VINCENT STOMATITIS; BACTERIUM; BIOTA; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUTH;

BACTERIA; BIOTA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FEMALE; GINGIVITIS; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOUTH; NIGER; NOMA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84859170794     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001556     Document Type: Article

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