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SUBMITTER: Saxena D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2546765 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saxena Deepak D Caufield Page W PW Li Yihong Y Brown Stuart S Song Jinmei J Norman Robert R
Journal of clinical microbiology 20080702 9
Streptococcus mutans is one of several members of the oral indigenous biota linked with severe early childhood caries (S-ECC). Because most humans harbor S. mutans, but not all manifest disease, it has been proposed that the strains of S. mutans associated with S-ECC are genetically distinct from those found in caries-free (CF) children. The objective of this study was to identify common DNA fragments from S. mutans present in S-ECC but not in CF children. Using suppressive subtractive hybridiza ...[more]