Relationship between Oral Malodor and the Global Composition of Indigenous Bacterial Populations in Saliva

• Published in: Applied and Environmental Microbiology Vol. 76; no. 9; pp. 2806 - 2814
• Main Authors: Takeshita, Toru, Suzuki, Nao, Nakano, Yoshio, Shimazaki, Yoshihiro, Yoneda, Masahiro, Hirofuji, Takao, Yamashita, Yoshihisa
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC American Society for Microbiology 01.05.2010; American Society for Microbiology (ASM)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Bacteria; Bacteria - classification; Bacteria - genetics; Bacteria - isolation & purification; bacterial communities; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Cluster analysis; Coatings; Community composition; community structure; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Granulicatella; Halitosis - diagnosis; Halitosis - microbiology; Humans; Male; Microbial Ecology; Microbiology; Middle Aged; Mouth - chemistry; Multivariate analysis; plate count; Polymorphism; Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; saliva; Saliva - chemistry; Saliva - metabolism; Saliva - microbiology; Streptococcus; Studies; Sulfur; Sulfur Compounds - analysis; tongue; Treponema; volatile compounds; Oral cavity; Bacteria; Odor; Saliva

Oral malodor develops mostly from the metabolic activities of indigenous bacterial populations within the oral cavity, but whether healthy or oral malodor-related patterns of the global bacterial composition exist remains unclear. In this study, the bacterial compositions in the saliva of 240 subjec...