Temporal Stability of the Salivary Microbiota in Oral Health.

OBJECTIVES:Saliva is a biological fluid suitable for biomarker analysis, and differences in the salivary microbiota in oral health and disease have been reported. For such comparative analyses, time of sampling is critical since the bacterial composition may vary throughout the day, i.e., diurnal va...

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Main Authors: Daniel Belstrøm, Palle Holmstrup, Allan Bardow, Alexis Kokaras, Nils-Erik Fiehn, Bruce J Paster
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4723053?pdf=render