Open AccessPhagocytosis of bacterial strains isolated from acute dentoalveolar abscess
Author(s) -
Michael Alexander Oxenham Lewis,
S. G. Milligan,
T. W. MacFarlane,
Francis A. Carmichael
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of medical microbiology/journal of medical microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.91
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1473-5644
pISSN - 0022-2615
DOI - 10.1099/00222615-38-2-151
Subject(s) - microbiology and biotechnology , streptococcus milleri , fusobacterium nucleatum , prevotella intermedia , biology , phagocytosis , fusobacterium , streptococcus mitis , prevotella , streptococcaceae , streptococcus oralis , anaerobic exercise , bacteroidaceae , streptococcus , bacteria , bacteroides , antibiotics , porphyromonas gingivalis , physiology , genetics
The phagocytosis by human polymorphonuclear leucocytes of 37 bacterial strains identified as Streptococcus milleri (10 strains), strictly anaerobic gram-positive cocci (10) Prevotella intermedia (6), Pr. oralis (5) and Fusobacterium nucleatum (6) was investigated in vitro. The ingestion of S. milleri and strictly anaerobic gram-positive cocci was significantly greater (p < 0.001) than that of strains of Prevotella spp. and F. nucleatum. The degree of uptake of capsulate and non-capsulate strains did not differ.