Oral mitis group streptococci: A silent majority in our oral cavity

N Okahashi, M Nakata, H Kuwata… - Microbiology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… understanding the pathogenicity of oral mitis group streptococci. The virulence factors of oral
mitis group streptococci described in this review are summarized in Figure 1, 2 and Table 1. …

StreptoBase: An Oral Streptococcus mitis Group Genomic Resource and Analysis Platform

W Zheng, TK Tan, IC Paterson, NVR Mutha, CC Siow… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
… of oral species from the mitis group. It currently hosts 104 S. mitis group genomes including
27 novel mitis groupmitis group bacteria. StreptoBase incorporates sophisticated in-house …

[PDF][PDF] Susceptibility testing of Streptococcus mitis group isolates

G Bancescu, S Dumitriu, A Bancescu… - Indian journal of …, 2004 - researchgate.net
… found in this study indicated a need for a careful surveillance of the susceptibility pattern of
oral streptococci isolates of clinical significance. Clindamycin and chloramphenicol might be …

Streptococcus mitis: walking the line between commensalism and pathogenesis

J Mitchell - Molecular oral microbiology, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Streptococcus mitis is an interesting organism. It has generally been considered a relatively
benign oral streptococcus and member of the oral commensal flora. Nevertheless, S. mitis

Proportional Distribution and Relative Adherence of Streptococcus miteor (mitis) on Various Surfaces in the Human Oral Cavity

WF Liljemark, RJ Gibbons - Infection and Immunity, 1972 - Am Soc Microbiol
… the streptococci recovered from the vestibular mucosa (2, 4, 13,23, 24). The present
investigation describes a group of streptococci, possessing the characteristics of S. miteor (S. mitis), …

[HTML][HTML] Streptococcus mitis strains causing severe clinical disease in cancer patients

SA Shelburne, P Sahasrabhojane… - Emerging infectious …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… To determine whether the MLSA data accurately represented the entire genetic content of
the Mitis group strains, we performed whole-genome sequencing of 9 S. mitis and 1 S. oralis …

Identification of oral mitis group streptococci by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction

JD Rudney, CJ Larson - Oral microbiology and immunology, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
… did not yield specific bands for oral mitis group species ( 40). This study applied a panel of
50 arbitrary primers to a panel of 79 previously identified oral mitis group strains, to determine …

Acidogenicity and acid tolerance of Streptococcus oralis and Streptococcus mitis isolated from plaque of healthy and incipient caries teeth

JA Banas, M Zhu, DV Dawson… - Journal of Oral …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
oral streptococcal species (within the limits of our PCR-based identification scheme), but
there was no obvious preferential recovery of particular species from a given subject group. …

… isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus mitis: characterization of “atypical” pneumococci and organisms allied to S. mitis …

AM Whatmore, A Efstratiou, AP Pickerill… - Infection and …, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
Group 2c consisted of a group of organisms we have called atypical oral streptococci: this
designation is based largely upon the presence of pneumococcal virulence factor genes as …

Genetic approaches to the identification of the mitis group within the genus Streptococcus

Y Kawamura, RA Whiley, SE Shu, T Ezaki… - …, 1999 - microbiologyresearch.org
… of the mitis group of the genus Streptococcus was investigated. … all species currently within
the mitis group isolated in different … The Streptococcus pneumoniae sub-cluster was located …