Specific clones of Trichomonas tenax are associated with periodontitis.
Trichomonas tenax, an anaerobic protist difficult to cultivate with an unreliable molecular identification, has been suspected of involvement in periodontitis, a multifactorial inflammatory dental disease affecting the soft tissue and bone of periodontium. A cohort of 106 periodontitis patients clas...
Main Authors: | Sarah Benabdelkader, Julien Andreani, Alexis Gillet, Elodie Terrer, Marion Pignoly, Herve Chaudet, Gerard Aboudharam, Bernard La Scola |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2019-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0213338 |
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