Deep sequencing identifies ethnicity-specific bacterial signatures in the oral microbiome.

Oral infections have a strong ethnic predilection; suggesting that ethnicity is a critical determinant of oral microbial colonization. Dental plaque and saliva samples from 192 subjects belonging to four major ethnicities in the United States were analyzed using terminal restriction fragment length...

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Main Authors: Matthew R Mason, Haikady N Nagaraja, Terry Camerlengo, Vinayak Joshi, Purnima S Kumar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3806732?pdf=render

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