Identification of Putative Bacterial Pathogens for Orofacial Granulomatosis Based on 16S rRNA Metagenomic Analysis

ABSTRACT Orofacial granulomatosis (OFG) is a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by nontender swelling of the orofacial tissues, the underlying cause of which remains unknown. Our previous study demonstrated that tooth apical periodontitis (AP) is involved in the development of OFG. To charac...

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Main Authors: Yuanyuan Wang, Hao Xu, Minghui Wei, Yuhong Wang, Wenzhe Wang, Jia Ju, Yuan Liu, Xinwen Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Microbiology 2023-06-01
Series:Microbiology Spectrum
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Online Access:https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/spectrum.02266-22