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February 13, 2007
S-ECC Genetic Profiling
New research published last month in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology is hopeful for developing a test to diagnose severe early childhood caries (S-ECC) in children.
Y. Li, Y. Ge, D. Saxena, P.W. Caufield. 2006. Genetic profiling of the oral microbiota associated with severe early-childhood carries. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 45. 1: 81-87. PMID: 17079495
http://jcm.asm.org/cgi/content/full/45/1/81?view=long&pmid=17079495
"After adjusting for the number of observed bands, we estimated that the S-ECC group exhibited 94.5 total phylotypes and that the CF group exhibited 113.4. These results suggest that the microbial diversity and complexity of the microbial biota in dental plaque are significantly less in S-ECC children than in CF children."
Posted by pfa at February 13, 2007 08:43 AM