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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2013-05-01
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Series: | Journal of Oral Microbiology |
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Online Access: | http://www.journaloforalmicrobiology.net/index.php/jom/article/download/21077/27624 |