Candida colonization in denture wearers, especially immunocompromised patients, can be
disruptive to dental treatment and may be a barrier to patient health. The surface …

Background Contaminated toothbrushes have been shown to harbor and transmit viruses
and bacteria. The authors conducted a study to evaluate the effect of a triclosan-containing …

Actinomycetes, involved in oral and periodontal diseases, cause serious infections in
immunocompromised hosts. Severely scorbutic guinea pig leukocytes killed only 12% of …

Purpose: This in vivo investigation compared the oral candidal population between heat‐cured
acrylic resin and nickel‐chromium‐beryllium alloy in maxillary complete dentures in HIV‐…

Tris and EDTA combined to form a homologue which has far greater chelating ability than
EDTA alone. The weaker serine and NH 4 Cl homo-logues of EDTA replaced EDTA + tris in …

Thiamine stimulates the production of a red pigment, which is chromatographically and
spectrophotometrically identical to prodigiosin, by growing cultures of Serratia marcescens …

Microbiologic isolation techniques and scanning electron microscopy were used to
determine whether a fungus is associated with the black discoloration of some silicone nasal …

Organic dyes have long been used in diagnostic microbiology to differentiate species by color
reactions. We studied the ability of a new noninhibitory medium, YM agar containing 0.01…

Forty-eight strains of Escherichia coli isolated from children with diarrhea were classified
according to nine enteropathogenic serotypes. The strains were examined for production of …

This paper presents an adaptation of two methods into a single rapid and sensitive micro-quantitative
and/or-qualitative procedure for use in the routine laboratory analyses of …