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MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 385-388Publisher
CENTER ACADEMIC PUBL JAPAN
DOI: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2000.tb02510.x
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Helicobacter pylori; oral cavity; transient bacteria
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We used the reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and culture methods to study the presence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric acid oral samples from a total of 116 gastritis and peptic ulcer patients, including 58 with oral cancer. Detection rates of H. pylori were 46.6% in stomach samples and 12.1% in oral swab samples. Ail of the oral cancer surface swab samples were positive for H. pylori, as were their gastric samples suggesting that oral H. pylori derived from the stomach. The culture supernatants of Streptococcus mutans and Prevotella intermedia inhibited the growth of the H. pylori strain and caused the formation of the coccal form, In cases where H. pylori was detected in the oral cavity samples, including the oral cancer surface samples, it was believed that this species had colonized the stomach and were present in the oral cavity only as a transient organism.
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