Category: DENTAL

First narrow-spectrum antibiotic successfully eliminates Fusobacterium nucleatum, a gum disease pathogen

Microbial community analysis using 16S rRNA sequencing. FP-100 treatment reduced the relative abundance of F. nucleatum without a significant change in alpha diversity, but a significant community shift was demonstrated

Shedding light on how oral bacteria can aggravate rheumatoid arthritis

Researchers unveil mechanism by which periodontal bacterium A. actinomycetemcomitans exacerbated symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) conducted various experiments in a mouse model of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). They investigated the molecular-level