The bacteria of periodontal diseases.
The bacteria of periodontal diseases.
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1600-0757.1994.tb00019.x
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发表时间:
1994-06-01
影响因子:
18.6
通讯作者:
Moore, L V
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作者:
Moore, W E;Moore, L V
From infancy until death, people put their fingers on nearly everything around them, including their food, and in their mouths. Most microbes that can survive in the mouth or gastrointestinal tract continually have the opportunity to establish residence there. Through direct or indirect contact, these bacteria are shared with offspring and with other people. But in spite of frequent contact and potential transfer of bacterial species between people (34), each person tends to maintain his or her own unique periodontal, skin and intestinal floras (11, 26, 28). Although there is an overlap among the kinds of bacteria present in different people, individuals tend to maintain more of one or another group of species. Even after antibiotic therapy, individuals tend to regain their own unique flora. It is not clear whether the individual differences in flora composition are controlled primarily by genetic or by environmental influences. Moore et al.(25) have found that the periodontal floras of twin children living in the same households were significantly more similar than those of unrelated children of the same ages, indicating that environment and/or genetics can influence the composition of the flora. In that study, the periodontal floras of identical twins were more similar than those of fraternal twins, which indicates that there is some genetic control of flora composition (25). The occurrence of some periodontal species is significantly different among members of different human races (39), which also may indicate a genetic influence on flora composition. Immune response varies among individuals, and this may be under either genetic or environmental control through history of previous exposure, but it indicates that any given bacterial species may not be of equal significance to all people.