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. 1982 Nov;38(2):785–787. doi: 10.1128/iai.38.2.785-787.1982

Familial clustering of the Streptococcus mutans cryptic plasmid strain in a dental clinic population.

P W Caufield, Y M Wannemuehler, J B Hansen
PMCID: PMC347807  PMID: 7141713

Abstract

Of Streptococcus mutans strains from 100 pedodontic patients, 13% contained the common cryptic plasmid. Family members of four plasmid-positive patients harbored plasmid-positive S. mutans at a significantly greater frequency compared with the pedodontic population, but there was not a one-to-one correlation of strains between mothers and children.

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