The personal human oral microbiome obscures the effects of treatment on periodontal disease.

Periodontitis is a progressive disease of the periodontium with a complex, polymicrobial etiology. Recent Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) studies of the microbial diversity associated with periodontitis have revealed strong, community-level differences in bacterial assemblages associated with healt...

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Main Authors: Karen Schwarzberg, Rosalin Le, Balambal Bharti, Suzanne Lindsay, Giorgio Casaburi, Francesco Salvatore, Mohamed H Saber, Faisal Alonaizan, Jørgen Slots, Roberta A Gottlieb, J Gregory Caporaso, Scott T Kelley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906071?pdf=render