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. 2013 Apr;26(2):255–273. doi: 10.1128/CMR.00082-12

Table 2.

Bacterial species associated with signs and symptoms of acute endodontic infections

Species Signs and symptoms Method Study author(s) (reference)
Spirochetes Pain, purulent exudate Microscopy Miller (119)
Prevotella intermedia, Porphyromonas endodontalis Pain Culture Sundqvist (99)
Prevotella spp., Porphyromonas spp. Pain Culture Griffee et al. (231)
Prevotella spp., Porphyromonas endodontalis Pain Culture Sundqvist et al. (42)
Porphyromonas endodontalis, Porphyromonas gingivalis Pain Culture Haapasalo et al. (100)
Finegoldia magna Pain Culture Yoshida et al. (232)
Peptostreptococcus spp., Eubacterium spp., Porphyromonas spp. Pain Culture Hashioka et al. (233)
Parvimonas micra, Prevotella spp. Pain, swelling Culture Gomes et al. (234)
Fusobacterium necrophorum, Prevotella loescheii, Streptococcus constellatus Purulent exudate Culture Gomes et al. (235)
Streptococcus spp. Pain PCR Fouad et al. (150)
Streptococcus constellatus Pain, swelling, purulent exudate Checkerboard Siqueira et al. (236)
Prevotella loescheii, Peptostreptococcus spp., Anaerococcus prevotii Pain Culture Jacinto et al. (207)
Bifidobacterium spp., Actinomyces spp., Streptococcus constellatus Tenderness to percussion Culture Jacinto et al. (207)
Fusobacterium nucleatum Swelling Culture Jacinto et al. (207)
Parvimonas micra, Prevotella intermedia/nigrescens, Eubacterium spp. Pain Culture Gomes et al. (237)
Porphyromonas spp., Fusobacterium spp., Peptostreptococcus spp. Tenderness to percussion, purulent exudate Culture Gomes et al. (237)
Porphyromonas spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., Enterococcus spp. Swelling Culture Gomes et al. (237)
Treponema denticola Pain PCR Foschi et al. (238)
Filifactor alocis Pain, swelling, purulent exudate PCR Gomes et al. (78)
Tannerella forsythia Tenderness to percussion, purulent exudate PCR Gomes et al. (78)
Fusobacterium nucleatum, Prevotella intermedia, Dialister pneumosintes, Prevotella clone E9_42, Prevotella baroniae, Eubacterium clone BP1-89, Lachnospiraceae clone MCE7_60 Pain, swelling, purulent exudate PCR, cloning, and sequencing Sakamoto et al. (83)
Tannerella forsythia Pain Checkerboard Sassone et al. (188)
Porphyromonas gingivalis Pain, swelling, purulent exudate PCR Siqueira et al. (113)
Selenomonas sputigena Pain Checkerboard Rôças et al. (187)
Fusobacterium spp., Parvimonas spp., Atopobium spp., Dialister spp., Porphyromonas spp., Prevotella spp. Pain, swelling, purulent exudate Pyrosequencing Santos et al. (91)