The role of bacterial communities in canine nasal disease has not been studied so far using
next generation sequencing methods. Sequencing of bacterial 16S rRNA genes has …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a keystone pathogen of chronic periodontitis. The virulence of
P. gingivalis is reported to be strain related and there are currently a number of strain typing …

Periodontitis is a significant problem in companion animals, and yet little is known about the
disease-associated microbiota. A major virulence factor for the human periodontal pathogen …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is one of the major oral pathogens implicated in the widespread
inflammatory disorder periodontitis. Moreover, in recent years, P. gingivalis has been …

Porphyromonads play an important role in human periodontal disease and recently have
been shown to be highly prevalent in canine mouths. Porphyromonas cangingivalis is the …

T 1 maps have been shown to yield useful diagnostic information on lung function in patients
with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma, both for native T 1 and Δ T …

An obligatory anaerobic, Gram-stain-negative coccobacillus with black-pigmented colonies
was isolated from the oral cavity of selected Australian marsupial species. Phenotypic and …

Taxonomy for bacterial isolates is commonly assigned via sequence analysis. However, the
most common sequence-based approaches (eg 16S rRNA gene-based phylogeny or whole …

Background Repetitive regions of DNA and transposable elements have been found to
constitute large percentages of eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes. Such elements are …

Porphyromonas gingivalis is a renowned oral pathogen involved in periodontitis, one of the
most common inflammatory diseases worldwide. The recent discovery of its citrullinating …