LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Streptococcus mutans detection in saliva and colostrum samples

ABSTRACT Objective To detect Streptococcus mutans in colostrum and saliva of neonates and compare with its detection in saliva of mothers. Methods Forty-three healthy women, full-term gestations with no complications, submitted to elective Cesarean section, and their newborns were included in the stu...

Comparisons of IgA response in saliva and colostrum against oral streptococci species

BERTOLDO, Barbara Bellocchio; SILVA, Camilla Beatriz da; RODRIGUES, Denise Bertulucci Rocha; GERALDO-MARTINS, Vinicius Rangel; FERRIANI, Virginia Paes Leme; NOGUEIRA, Ruchele Dias.

Braz. oral res. (Online); 31 (), 2017

Abstract The present study compared IgA specificity against oral streptococci in colostrum and saliva samples. Sixty-two mother-and-child pairs were included; samples of colostrum (C) and saliva (MS) were collected from the mothers and saliva samples were collected from babies (BS). The specificity of Ig...

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