Fungal composition in saliva and plaque in children with caries: Differences and influencing factors
Caries is a dental disease that can affect oral and psychological health and has a high incidence in children. The role of fungal flora in childhood caries has not been fully described.
Meixiang Yin +5 more
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Phylogenetics of Cucumis (Cucurbitaceae) [PDF]
Background: Melon, Cucumis melo, and cucumber, C. sativus, are among the most widely cultivated crops worldwide. Cucumis, as traditionally conceived, is geographically centered in Africa, with C. sativus and C.
Kocyan, Alexander +2 more
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Isolation and Identification of fungi associated with diseased freshwater fishes in Terengganu, Malaysia [PDF]
Fish health problem presents an ongoing challenge for aquaculture as disease outbreaks cause fish mortalities and financial losses. This study investigated the fungal infections in common freshwater ornamental and food fish species in Terengganu ...
Khairulbariyyah Zakaria +16 more
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Indigenous yeast with cellulose-degrading activity in napa cabbage (Brassica pekinensis L.) waste: Characterisation and species identification [PDF]
Napa cabbage waste contains an organic component, cellulose, which can be utilised as an ingredient for cellulose-degrading enzyme production with the help of indigenous yeast. The aim of the research was to identify and characterise potential indigenous
Gemilang L. Utama +3 more
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Due to difficulties concerning morphological identification of planorbid snails of the genus Biomphalaria, and given a high variation of characters and in the organs with muscular tissue, we designed specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR) primers for ...
THDA Vidigal +5 more
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Abstract Trichophyton interdigitale, an anthropophilic species, is one of the main causative agents of tinea unguium and tinea pedis. T. interdigitale and the zoophilic species T. mentagrophytes are morphologically and physiologically very similar. Isolates of the T. interdigitale/T.
Junichiro Hiruma +6 more
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Gummosis is the most important disease of pistachio trees in Iranian orchards. The principal cause, Phytophthora pistaciae, is a recently described plant pathogenic oomycete from pistachio trees. This species is very similar, probably due to convergence,
Reza MOSTOWFIZADEH-GHALAMFARSA +1 more
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Next generation sequencing analysis reveals a relationship between rDNA unit diversity and locus number in Nicotiana diploids [PDF]
© 2012 Matyášek et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and ...
Fulnecek, J +7 more
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Congruence of chloroplast- and nuclear-encoded DNA sequence variations used to assess species boundaries in the soil microalga Heterococcus (Stramenopiles, Xanthophyceae). [PDF]
BackgroundHeterococcus is a microalgal genus of Xanthophyceae (Stramenopiles) that is common and widespread in soils, especially from cold regions. Species are characterized by extensively branched filaments produced when grown on agarized culture medium.
Andersen, Robert A +3 more
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Sequence Variant for Internal Transcribed Spacer Region of Mycobacterium abscessus [PDF]
During the implementation of a PCR-based assay to differentiate between Mycobacterium abscessus and M. chelonae using the 16S to 23S internal transcribed spacer region ([1][1]), a sequence variant of M. abscessus was discovered. The sequence variant did not bind the M. abscessus specific probe,
Haleina, Neal +4 more
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