Periodontitis associates with species-specific gene expression of the oral microbiota

• Main Authors: Belstrøm, Daniel, Constancias, Florentin, Drautz-Moses, Daniela Isabel, Schuster, Stephan Christoph, Veleba, Mark, Mahé, Frédéric, Givskov, Michael
• Other Authors: Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Environmental engineering; Biofilms; Microbiome
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/153815
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The purpose of the present investigation was to characterize species-specific bacterial activity of the oral microbiota in periodontitis. We tested the hypotheses that chronic inflammation, i.e., periodontitis, associates with bacterial gene expression of the oral microbiota. Oral microbial samples...