As-yet-uncultivated oral bacteria: breadth and association with oral and extra-oral diseases

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 i...

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Main Authors: José F. Siqueira, Isabela N. Rôças
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2013-05-01
Series:Journal of Oral Microbiology
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Online Access:http://www.journaloforalmicrobiology.net/index.php/jom/article/download/21077/27624