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As-yet-uncultivated oral bacteria: breadth and association with oral and extra-oral diseases.
- Source :
- Journal of Oral Microbiology; 2013, Vol. 5, p1-N.PAG, 14p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- It has been shown that 40-60% of the bacteria found in different healthy and diseased oral sites still remain to be grown in vitro, phenotypically characterized, and formally named as species. The possibility exists that these as-yet-uncultivated bacteria play important ecological roles in oral bacterial communities and may participate in the pathogenesis of several oral infectious diseases. There is also a potential for these as-yet- uncultivated oral bacteria to take part in extra-oral infections. For a comprehensive characterization of physiological and pathogenic properties as well as antimicrobial susceptibility of individual bacterial species, strains need to be grown in pure culture. Advances in culturing techniques have allowed the cultivation of several oral bacterial taxa only previously known by a 16S rRNA gene sequence signature, and novel species have been proposed. There is a growing need for developing improved methods to cultivate and characterize the as-yet-uncultivated portion of the oral microbiome so as to unravel its role in health and disease. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ORAL diseases
ORAL microbiology
MOUTH infections
MOLECULAR biology
RIBOSOMAL RNA
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 20002297
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Oral Microbiology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 90175729
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3402/jom.v5i0.21077