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Journal of Clinical Microbiology, Mar 1996, 537-542, Vol 34, No. 3
Copyright © 1996 by the American Society for Microbiology. All rights reserved.

Molecular analysis of microflora associated with dentoalveolar abscesses

D Dymock, AJ Weightman, C Scully and WG Wade
Department of Oral and Dental Science, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

The microflora associated with three dentoalveolar abscesses was determined by cultural and molecular methods. 16S rRNA genes were randomly amplified by means of conserved eubacterial primers and cloned. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the clones and amplified genes encoding 16S rRNA from the cultured bacteria was used to detect putative unculturable bacteria. Clones representative of five predominant groups of uncultured organisms were sequenced. Two were identified as Porphyromonas gingivalis and Prevotella oris, and one was found to be closely related to Peptostreptococcus micros. The remaining two clones did not correspond to known, previously sequenced organisms. One was related to Zoogloea ramigera, a species of aerobic waterborne organisms, while the other was distantly related to the genus Prevotella. This study has demonstrated the possibility of the characterization of microflora associated with human infection by molecular methods without the inherent biases of culture.


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