Subgingival microbiota of dogs with healthy gingiva or early periodontal disease from different geographical locations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Periodontal disease is the most common oral disease of dogs worldwide and results from a complex interplay between plaque bacteria, the host and environmental factors. Recent studies have enhanced our understanding of the associations between the plaque microbiota and canine periodontal disease. These studies, however, were limited in their geographical reach. Thus associations between the canine oral microbiota and geographical location were investigated by determining the composition of subgingival plaque samples from 587 dogs residing in the United Kingdom (UK), United States of America (USA), China and Thailand using 454-pyrosequencing.

Results

After quality filtering 6,944,757 sequence reads were obtained and clustering of these at ≥98% sequence resulted in 2

SUBMITTER: Wallis C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789547 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature