Quantitative PCR studies of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans and Treponema denticola/Tanerella forsythensis Complex as Etiological Factors of Chronic Periodontitis


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Abstract

Real-time quantitative PCR (Dentofl or kit) was used to detect DNA of periodontal pathogens in specimens from 92 patients with chronic periodontitis and from a control sample of 12 normal subjects. A bimodal distribution of patients by periodontium colonization with A. actinomycetemcomitans, P. gingivalis, P. intermedia, T. forsythensis, and T. denticola was demonstrated. A new approach to interpretation of the results of quantitative evaluation of periodontal pathogens, including the notion of pathological colonization level, led to classification of all cases with chronic generalized periodontitis into 3 groups: associated with A. actinomycetemcomitans, with T. forsythensis/T. denticola complex, and cases of uncertain genesis.

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O. O. Yanushevich

A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

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Russian Federation, Moscow

R. A. Ayvazova

A. I. Evdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation

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Russian Federation, Moscow

A. V. Shibaeva

N. M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics, the Russian Academy of Sciences; M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow; Moscow

D. V. Rebrikov

N. I. Vavilov Institute of Common Genetics, the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow

E. V. Trubnikova

Kursk State University

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Russian Federation, Kursk

Yu. K. Kudykina

M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow

M. V. Zylnikova

M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences; Naberezhnye Chelny Institute of Socio-Pedagogical Technologies and Resources

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Russian Federation, Moscow; Naberezhnye Chelny

R. S. Zaripova

Naberezhnye Chelny Institute of Socio-Pedagogical Technologies and Resources

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Russian Federation, Naberezhnye Chelny

A. B. Shevelev

M. P. Chumakov Institute of Poliomyelitis and Viral Encephalitides, the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

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Russian Federation, Moscow


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