Transmission of the Streptococcus mutans infection
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Abstract
Dental caries is an infectious disease and, because of this, the study of the transmission pathway of the etiologic microorganisms is very important to understand the caries physiopathogenesis and the possible ways to prevent it. The main focus of the studies regarding the transmission has been the Mutans Streptococci group, because they are the infectious agents most related to the beginning of the carious lesion. Different authors have found common characteristics in the Mutans Streptococci source of transmission, the principal ages of infection and the multiple factors that mediate the process of transmission. These and other tipics like the tools currently used to study of transmission and the clinical application given to this knowledge, are described in this review.
Keywords
dental caries, Streptococcus mutans, vertical transmission, lateral transmission, infectious transmissioncaries dental, Streptococcus mutans, transmisión vertical, transmisión lateral, transmisión infecciosa
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3. Loesche WJ. Role of Streptococcus mutans in human dental decay. Microbio! Rev 1986; 50:353-80
4. Mattos-Graver R et al. Water-insoluble glucan synthesis by mutans streptococcal strains correlates with incidence in 12 to 30 month old children. J Dent Res 2000; 79(6): 1371-7
5. Truong TL, Menard C, Mouton C, Trahan L.ldentification of mutans and other oral streptococci by random amplified polymorphic DNA analysis. J Med Microbio! 2000; 49: 63-71
6. Brock TD. Microbiología. Madrid España: lnteramericana, 1995; 448-54
7. Alaluusua S, Alaluusua SJ, Karjalainen J, Saarela M, Holttinen T et al. The demonstration by ribotyping of oral Streptococcus mutans infection over 5 to 7 years in children. Arch Oral Bio/1994 Jun; 39(6): 467-71
8. Caufield PW, WalkerTM. Genetic diversity within Streptococcus mutans evident from chromosomal DNA restriction fragment polymorphism. J Clin Microbio/1989 Feb; 27(2): 274-8
9. Emanuelsson . l, Thornqvist E. Genotypes of Mutans Streptococci tend to persist in their hostlar several years. Caries Res 2000; 34: 133 -9
10. Ha nada N. Current understanding of the cause of dental caries. J n J lnfec Dis 2000 Feb; 53(1 ):1-5
11 . Kozai K, Nakayama R, Tedjosasongko U, Kuwahara S, Suzuki J et al. lntrafamiliar distribution of Mutans Streptococci in Japanese families and possibility of father to child transmission. Microbiol immunol1998: 43(2):99-106
12. Li Y, Wang W, Caufield PW. The fidelity of Mutans Streptococci transmission and caries status correlate with breast-feeding experience among Chinese families. Caries Res 2000; 34: 123-32
13. Li Y, Caufield PW. The fidelity of acquisition of Mutans Streptococci infants from their mothers. Caries Res 2002 Jui-Aug; 36(4): 288-93
14. Rosan B. The Streptococci. In: Oral Microbiology and lmmunology. 2nd ed. USA: Saunders, 1994; 129-46
15. Thorild 1, Lindau-Jonson B, TwetmanS. Prevalence of salivary Streptococcus mutans in mothers and in their preschool children. lnt J Paediatr Dent 2002 Jan; 12(1 ): 2-7
16. Martínez MC. Distribución clonal de Streptococcus mutans en niños predentales y sus madres. Trabajo de maestría en microbiología. Directora: Rodríguez A. Bogotá, D. C. , Colombia: Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Facultad de Ciencias, 2002
17. Burnet G. Microbiología oral y enfermedad infecciosa. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Panamericana, 1982; 228-9
18. de Figueiredo LF. Odontología para el bebé. Sao Paulo, Brasil: Actualidades Médico Odontológicas Latinoamérica, 2000; 95-7
19. Whiley RA, Beighton D. Curren! classification of the oral streptococci. Oral Microbiollmmunol1998:195-216
20. Roa lA, Tamayo MF, Gamboa LF. Correlación entre unidades formadoras de colonias (UFC) y prevalencia de caries. Univ Odontol 2001 Jun;21 (44): 36-43
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22. Wan AK, Seow WK, Purdie DM, Bird PS, Walsh LJ, Tudehope DL. Oral colonization of Streptococcus mutans in six-month predentate infants. J Dent Res 2000 Dec; 80(12): 2060-5
23. Wan AK, Seow WK, Walsh LJ, Bird PS, Tudehope DL, Purdie DM. Association of Streptococcus mutansinfection and oral developmental nodules in pre-dentate infants. J Dent Res 2001 Oct;
80(10): 1945-8
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25. Alaluusua S, Gronroos L, Kleemola-Kujala E. Streptococcus mutans, not detected? Oral Microbio//mmuno/1989 Sep; 4(3): 176-7
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35. de Soet J, Toors F, de Graaff J. Acidogenesis by oral streptococci at difieren! pH values. Caries Res 1989; 23: 14-7
36. Hirose H, Hirose K, lsogai. E, Miura H, Ueda l. Clase association between Streptococcus sobrinus in the saliva of young children ano smooth-surface caries increment. Caries Res 1993: 27: 292-7
37. Kohler B, Bjarnason S. Mutans streptococci. Lactobacilli and caries prevalence in 11-and-12· year-old lcelandic children. Comm Dent Ora, Epidemio/1987; 15:332-5
38. Okada M, Soda Y, Hayashi F, Doi T, Suzuki J, Miura K, Kozai K. PCR detection of Streptococcus mutans and S. sobrinus in dental plaque samples from Japanese pre-school children. J Med Microbio/ 2002 May; 51(5): 443-7
39. Mattos-Graver R, Li Y, Caufield P, Duncan M, Smith D. Genotypic diversity of Mutans Streptococci in Brazilian nursery children suggests horizontal transmission. J Microbio/2001 Jun; 2313-6
40. Shiroza T, Shinozaki N, Watanabe T, lkemi T,Fukushima K, Abiko Y. Rapid isolation of chromosomal DNA from oral streptococci and polymerase chain reaction-oriented restriction fragment-length polymorphism analysis lar genetic heterogeneity. Oral Microbio/ lmmunol 1998 Feb; 13(1 ): 11-6
41. Li Y, Caufield PW, Emanuelsson 1, Redmo, Thornqvist E. Differentiation of Streptococcus mutans and Streptococcus sobrinus via genotypic and phenotypic pretiles from three different populations. Oral Microbiollmmunol2001 ; 16(1 ):16·23
42. Li Y, Caufield PW. Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction fingerprinting for the genotypic identification of mutans streptococci from humans. Oral Microbiallmmunol1998 Feb; 13(1 ): 17·22
43. Okahashi N, Sasakawa C, Okada N, Yamada M, Yoshikawa M el al. Construction of Notl restriction map of the Streptococcus mutans genome. J Gen Microbiol-1990 Nov; 136(Pt11 ):2217-23
44. Saarela M, Satu A, Tsutomu T, Sirkka A. Genetic diversity within isolates of Mutans Streptococci recognized by an rRNA gene probe. J Clin Microbiol1993 Mar; 31(3): 584·7
45. Saarela M, Han nula J, Asikainen S, Alaluusua S. Typing of Mutans Streptococci by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction. Arch OraiBiol 1996 Aug-Sep; 41 (8·9): 821 ·6
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Martínez Pabón, M. C. (2021). Transmission of the Streptococcus mutans infection. Universitas Odontologica, 24(54-55), 151–159. Retrieved from https://revistas.javeriana.edu.co/index.php/revUnivOdontologica/article/view/16420
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