… of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus is generally based upon growth on
various … We examined various approaches of differentiating these two species through a …

… Table 3]. The heterogeneity of biotypes among species was observed in the present investigation
[Table 3]… Biotype I was found to be the predominant among the study population. All the …

… Streptococcus sobrinus is known to possess cariogenic properties in vitro. It can produce …
were subcultured only three times. The strains used in this study were chosen ran domly; 3 S. …

… by three distinct genotypes, and two children (from pairs 2 and 20) harbored two distinct …
Therefore, more studies with a large population sample may be necessary to investigate …

… 3 other children who were positive for mutans streptococci showed no caries at 7 years. In
the 5 children without mutans streptococci … true differences between populations or may be …

… sobrinus DSM 20742 has seven instead of three genes encoding … These multiple glucans
apparently provide a potential by … People also read lists articles that other readers of this article …

… for mutans streptococci by iising the immunoblot technique (IBT). Each bar represents the
percentage ofchildren in the total study population at 5 yr and 6 yr carrying different levels of S …

… sobrinus as the other members of the mutans streptococci ± S… Other grampositive oral bacteria
15 strains of 10 species of … gram-negative oral bacteria 3 strains of 3 species of cocci and …

… mutans serotypes frequency in different age groups of the study population and relation
with DMFT are shown in Tables 3 and 4. The highest value of DMFT was related to serotype e (…

… Figure 3 is a three-dimensional bar chart illustrat ing the detection of and association …
sobrinus in plaque samples from all avail able tooth surfaces with mutans scores 0-3. Sites with the …