Oral Microbial Communities

Download or read book Oral Microbial Communities written by Paul E. Kolenbrander and published by American Society for Microbiology Press. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understand how the intricacies of multispecies community life are related to human oral health. * Explores the immense opportunities presented by readily accessible, genetically tractable, genome-sequenced oral species that naturally form multispecies communities. * Highlights model systems that study oral bacterial interactions, including biofilm growth using saliva as the source of nutrition. * Emphasizes the use of genomic inquiry to probe the human oral microbiome.