Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here for more information

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Dental Research
This Article
Right arrow Free Full Text (Free PDF) Free
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Beighton, D.
Right arrow Articles by Miller, W. A.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Beighton, D.
Right arrow Articles by Miller, W. A.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

A Microbiological Study of Normal Flora of Macropod Dental Plaque

David Beighton

Department of Conservative Dentistry, and Dental Medicine and Surgery, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia

William A. Miller

Department of Conservative Dentistry, and Dental Medicine and Surgery, University of Melbourne, Parkville 3052, Victoria, Australia

The percentage bacterial composition of dental plaques from 12 macropods was determined. The major group of organisms was gram-positive filamentous and pleomorphic rods whose median representation was 92.2%. These were mainly Actinomyces viscosus (median value 62.5%) and Bacterionema matruchotii (median value 23.2%). Streptococci were poorly represented (median value 4.2%) as were anaerobic gram-negative organisms. Aerobic gram-negative bacteria were identified as neisseriae and Moraxella sp. The macropod plaque flora was compared with that of human beings and rodents and the differences discussed in relation to dietary differences and the early externalization of the marsupial young.

Journal of Dental Research, Vol. 56, No. 8, 995-1000 (1977)
DOI: 10.1177/00220345770560083101
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J. Clin. Microbiol.Home page
D. R. Elliott, M. Wilson, C. M. F. Buckley, and D. A. Spratt
Cultivable Oral Microbiota of Domestic Dogs
J. Clin. Microbiol., November 1, 2005; 43(11): 5470 - 5476.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 JDRHome page
S.R. Brailsford, R.B. Tregaskis, H.S. Leftwich, and D. Beighton
The Predominant Actinomyces spp. Isolated from Infected Dentin of Active Root Caries Lesions
Journal of Dental Research, September 1, 1999; 78(9): 1525 - 1534.
[Abstract] [PDF]