Table 2.

Microorganisms detected in supra- and sub-gingival plaque of HIV+ patients

Microorganism	Reference
Porphyromonas gingivalis, P. intermedia, Fusobacterium nucleatum, Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans	Murray et al, 1989
A. actinomycetemcomitans, Campylobacter rectus, Micromonas micros, P.intermedia, spirochetes	Rams et al, 1991
P. intermedia, P. buccale, P. oralis, spirochetes	Piluso et al, 1993
CMV, EBV type 1, HSV, HHV-6	Contreras et al, 1997, 2001
P. gingivalis, A. actinomycetemcomitans, Candida albicans, mycoplasma spp.	Chattin et al, 1999
HHV-6, -7, -8	Mardirossian et al, 2000
C. dubliniensis, C. glabrata, C. parpsilosis	Jabra-Rizk et al, 2001
Capnocytophaga spp., P. loescheii, Streptococcus sanguis, Lactobacillus spp., Fusobacterium spp.	Tsang and Samaranayake, 2001
Bulleidia extructa, Dialister spp., Fusobaterium spp., Selenomonas spp., Peptostreptococcus spp., Veillonella spp.	Paster et al, 2002
Spirochetes, yeasts	Cobb et al, 2003
Combinations of P. nigrescens/C. rectus, P. nigrescens/P. gingivalis, P. nigrescens/Treponema denticola	Patel et al, 2003
F. nucleatum, P. intermedia, A. actinomycetemcomitans	Alpagot et al, 2004
Gemella spp., Dialister spp., Streptococcus spp., Veillonella spp., S. cerevisae, C. albicans	Aas et al, 2007
Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella pneumoniae	Botero et al, 2007

HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; CMV, cytomegalovirus; EBV, Epstein–Barr virus; HSV, herpes simplex virus; HHV, human herpes virus.