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JOURNAL OF ENDODONTICS
Volume 48, Issue 4, Pages 487-495Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2022.01.012
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16S ribosomal RNA sequencing; apical periodontitis; endodontic infection; high-throughput sequencing; microbiome
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This study used high-throughput sequencing technology to analyze the endodontic microbiome of teeth with asymptomatic apical periodontitis. The results revealed a high bacterial diversity and species composition variability among root canal samples. Large lesions showed a higher number of species but did not significantly differ from small lesions in bacterial diversity.
Introduction: Advanced DNA sequencing technology allows more detailed analysis and description of the endodontic microbiome. This study used the MiSeq high-throughput sequencing platform (Illumina, San Diego, CA) to describe the endodontic microbiome of teeth with primary asymptomatic apical periodontitis with no sinus tract. Methods: Root canal samples from 25 patients were prepared for DNA sequencing analysis. Bacterial diversity of the microbiome was identified and compared between cases and according to the size of the related apical periodontitis lesions. Statistical analyses of the operational taxonomic unit distribution was performed using principal component analysis with the Bray-Curtis distance and a principal coordinate analysis, 2-way permutational multivariate analysis of variance. The chi-square or Fisher exact test was used to evaluate the prevalence of different operational taxonomic units related to small and large apical periodontitis lesions. Results: Although there was a very high bacterial diversity in the microbiome of teeth with asymptomatic apical periodontitis, 4 phyla dominated the microbiome: Firmicutes (27%), Bacteroidetes (21 %), Proteobacteria (21%), and Actinobacteria (12%). There was high variability in species composition between root canal samples with no common species pattern for the cases. Large lesions showed a higher number of species but did not significantly differ from small lesions in bacterial diversity indexes. Bacteroidaceae [G-1] bacterium HMT 272, a previously uncultivated but still unnamed and uncharacterized taxon, was the most prevalent and abundant phylotype. Conclusions: High-throughput sequencing technology confirmed the complexity of the endodontic microbiome and revealed that microbial heterogeneity is a feature between cases. This indicates that various microbial combinations of the endodontic microbiome are able to illicit periapical inflammatory diseases.
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