Ecological Shifts of Supragingival Microbiota in Association with Pregnancy

Ecological Shifts of Supragingival Microbiota in Association with Pregnancy

Pregnancy is a physiological process with pronounced hormonal fluctuations in females, and relatively little is known regarding how pregnancy influences the ecological shifts of supragingival microbiota. In this study, supragingival plaques and salivary hormones were collected from 11 pregnant women...

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Main Authors: Wenzhen Lin, Wenxin Jiang, Xuchen Hu, Li Gao, Dongmei Ai, Hongfei Pan, Chenguang Niu, Keyong Yuan, Xuedong Zhou, Changen Xu, Zhengwei Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
Subjects:
supragingival plaque
oral microbiota
bacterial diversity
pregnancy
female steroid hormones
16S rDNA sequencing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcimb.2018.00024/full

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