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Genotypic diversity of mutans streptococci in Brazilian nursery children suggests horizontal transmission

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JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY
Volume 39, Issue 6, Pages 2313-2316

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AMER SOC MICROBIOLOGY
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.39.6.2313-2316.2001

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  1. NIDCR NIH HHS [R37 DE006153] Funding Source: Medline

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Streptococcus mutans strains were isolated from cohorts of Brazilian nursery school children and genotyped by arbitrarily primed PCR and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Of 24 children,vith two to five S. mutans isolates, 29% carried two or more genotypes. The presence of matching genotypes of S. mutans among children attending one nursery suggests horizontal transmission.

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