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Campylobacter-Wolinella group organisms are the only oral bacteria that form arylsulfatase-active colonies on a
1Department of Oral Microbiology and General Immunology, Dental Institute of the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
Infection and Immunity
|May 1, 1989
Abstract:
Most oral bacteria tested formed colonies on a chemically defined medium with a chromogenic arylsulfatase substrate. Arylsulfatase activity was, however, restricted to Campylobacter-Wolinella group organisms, including Wolinella recta, a possible periodontopathogen. W. recta was the only arylsulfatase-active species against which consistently high levels of antibody were detected in human sera.