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Study design of the natural history study: sampling periods relative to the infant time line. Bacteriological samples were taken at 3-month intervals. Pre- and post-mutans streptococci levels of S. sanguinis/total cultivable bacteria in saliva were averaged and compared relative to the time to colonization by the mutans streptococci.
