Table 1. Bacterial strains used to construct whole genomic DNA probes that were then used for testing hamster buccal epithelial cell samples.

Taxa	Strains	Taxa	Strains
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans a	43718*	Leptotrichia buccalis	14201*
Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans b	29523*	Neisseria mucosa	19696*
Actinomyces gerencseriae	23860*	Parvimonas micra	33270*
Actinomyces israelli	12102*	Prevotella melaninogenica	25845*
Actinomyces odontolyticus	17929*	Porphyromonas gingivalis	33277*
Actinomyces naeslundii I	12104*	Prevotella intermedia	25611*
Actinomyces oris	43146*	Prevotella nigrescens	33563*
Campylobacter rectus	33238*	Propionibacterium acnes	11827*
Capnocytophaga gingivalis	33624*	Selenomonas noxia	43541*
Capnocytophaga ochracea	33596*	Streptococcus anginosus	33397*
Capnocytophaga sputigena	33612*	Streptococcus constellatus	27823*
Campylobacter showae	51146*	Streptococcus mitis	49456*
Campylobacter concisus	484*	Streptococcus oralis	35037*
Eubacterium nodatum	33099*	Streptococcus sanguinis	10556*
Eikenella corrodens	23834*	Streptococcus gordonii	10558*
Fusobacterium periodonticum	33693*	Streptococcus intermedius	27335*
Fusobacterium nucleatum polymorphum	10953*	Tannerella forsythia	43037*
Fusobacterium nucleatum vincentii	49256*	Treponema denticola	B1†
Fusobacterium nucleatum nucleatum	25586*	Treponema socranskii	D40DR
Gemella morbillorum	27824*	Veillonella parvula	10790*

* ATCC (American Type Culture Collection, Rockville, MD);

^†The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, MA.