Identification of Bacteroides species from adult periodontal disease
- 1 September 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Microbiology Society in Journal of Medical Microbiology
- Vol. 24 (2) , 133-137
- https://doi.org/10.1099/00222615-24-2-133
Abstract
Summary Samples from deep (4–7 mm) periodontal pockets were collected from 17 patients with adult-type periodontal disease and one with the juvenile form of the disease. They were streaked immediately on selective and non-selective media and incubated anaerobically for 96 h. There was a heavy growth of Bacteroides spp. from most samples and 10 representative colonies from each sample were sub-cultured for identification. In a total of 149 isolates from patients with adult-type disease, the commonest species were B. oralis (40), B. asaccharolyticus (35), B. intermedius (31), B. fragilis (12) and B. ureolyticus (10); B. gingivalis was not detected. The distribution of species was not distorted by multiple identical isolates from individual patients. There was a heavy growth of a single species, B. ureolyticus, from the patient with juvenile-type disease.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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