Open AccessGenotypic variations of Porphyromonas gingivalis in chronic periodontitis patients with and without diabetes: An in vitro study using arbitrarily primed-polymerase chain reaction and heteroduplex-polymerase chain reaction
Author(s) -
Siladitya Sen,
Kukkamalla Meena Anand
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of indian society of periodontology (print)/journal of indian society of periodontology (online)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.309
H-Index - 28
eISSN - 0975-1580
pISSN - 0972-124X
DOI - 10.4103/jisp.jisp_406_18
Subject(s) - porphyromonas gingivalis , heteroduplex , polymerase chain reaction , diabetes mellitus , genotype , primer (cosmetics) , chronic periodontitis , medicine , periodontitis , microbiology and biotechnology , gastroenterology , biology , dna , chemistry , endocrinology , gene , genetics , organic chemistry
Diabetes has become an endemic throughout the world. Periodontitis is associated with diabetes, and it has been regarded as the sixth complication of diabetes. However, the role of diabetes on periodontopathic microbiota such as Porphyromonas gingivalis remains unclear.