Is the oral fungal pathogen Candida albicans a cariogen?

Oral Diseases

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2018, Pages 518-526

  Pereira, D F A ^a   Seneviratne, C J ^b   Koga Ito, C Y ^a   Samaranayake, L P ^c,d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c KUWAIT UNIVERSITY   (Kuwait)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Candida albicans; caries; cariogenicity

Indexed keywords

ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; PROTEINASE;

BIOFILM; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DENTAL CARIES; FUNGAL COLONIZATION; FUNGAL VIRULENCE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STREPTOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS; ENZYMOLOGY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MICROBIOLOGY;

ACIDS; BIOFILMS; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; DENTAL CARIES; HUMANS; STREPTOCOCCUS MUTANS;

EID: 85020379710     PISSN: 1354523X     EISSN: 16010825     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/odi.12691     Document Type: Review

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