Oral bacterial ecology : the molecular basis /
edited by Howard K. Kuramitsu and Richard P. Ellen.
- Wymondham : Horizon Scientific, c2000.
- vi, 314 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Howard K. Kuramitsu and Richard P. Ellen -- Oral ecology and its impact on oral microbial diversity / Philip D. Marsh -- Growth and nutrition as ecological factors / Jan Carlsson -- Adhesion as an ecological determinant in the oral cavity / Richard J. Lamont and Howard F. Jenkinson -- Oral innate host defense responses: interactions with microbial communities and their role in the development of disease / Richard Darveau -- Ecological basis for dental caries / Ian R. Hamilton -- Periodontitis as an ecological imbalance / Daniel Grenier and Denis Mayrand.