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Oral Biofilm Sampling for Microbiome Analysis in Healthy Children
Published on: December 31, 2017
Isolation and identification of bifidobacteriaceae from human saliva
David Beighton1, Steven C Gilbert, Douglas Clark
1Infection Research Group, Dental Institute, King's College London, London, United Kingdom. david.beighton@kcl.ac.uk
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
|August 30, 2008
Abstract:
Bifidobacteriaceae were isolated from saliva and infected dentine by using a mupirocin-based selective medium. Of the saliva samples, 94% harbored bifids. The mean concentration (+/- the standard error) was 4.46 (+/-0.12) log(10)(CFU per ml + 1), and the predominant isolates were Bifidobacterium dentium, B. longum, Scardovia inopinata, Parascardovia denticolens, and Alloscardovia omnicolens.
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