FURTHER STUDIES ON THE GROWTH INHIBITION OF SOME ORAL BACTERIA BY XYLITOL
- 1 September 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Pathologica Microbiologica Scandinavica Series B: Microbiology
- Vol. 91B (1-6) , 261-265
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1699-0463.1983.tb00044.x
Abstract
The growth in Brain Heart Infusion medium containing glucose or sucrose of Streptococcus mutans strain OMZ 176, two strains of Strep, sanguis (ATCC 10556 and No. 39) and Actinomyces viscosus type ATCC 27044 was inhibited by xylitol but not by D‐arabitol or ribitol. When fructose was substituted for glucose, xylitol had no growth‐inhibiting effect. It was also shown that the bacteria produced less acid in the presence of xylitol, as measured by the pH of the cultures or by neutralization with alkali.Keywords
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