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Infect Immun. 1982 November; 38(2): 785-787

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

P W Caufield, Y M Wannemuehler and J B Hansen

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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Infect Immun. 1982 November; 38(2): 785-787

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