Streptococcus mutans, Candida albicans, and the Human Mouth: A Sticky Situation

PLoS Pathogens

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Metwalli, Khalid H ^a   Khan, Shariq A ^a   Krom, Bastiaan P ^b   Jabra Rizk, Mary Ann ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORIDE; HISTATIN; TOOTHPASTE;

ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; DENTAL CARIES; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL STRUCTURES; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; MOUTH DISEASE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN TENSION; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

CANDIDA ALBICANS; CANDIDIASIS; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; MOUTH; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 84887280542     PISSN: 15537366     EISSN: 15537374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1003616     Document Type: Article

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