L. V. H. Moore

TL;DR: Fecal floras of polyp patients, Japanese-Hawaiians, North American Caucasians, rural native Japanese, and rural native Africans were compared, and total concentrations of Bacteroides species and, surprisingly, Bifidobacterium species were generally positively associated with increased risk of colon cancer.

TL;DR: Data indicated that the flora of healthy sites within a mouth is influenced by the number of inflamed sites, which argues against independence of sites bacteriologically, and suggests that increased serum and blood in the gingival crevice encourage species that relate to periodontitis.

TL;DR: The composition of microbiological floras of all periodontitis samples was statistically significantly different from that of subjects with healthy gingiva and that of active and control sites in AP subjects and the composition of microfloras of sites in subjects with naturally-occurring gingivitis was intermediate.

TL;DR: DNAs of type strains and representative members of Actinomyces groups from the human periodontal flora and from other habitats were compared by using the S1 nuclease procedure to determine their genetic relatedness.

TL;DR: Cellular fatty acid profiles were determined for species in 33 genera of anaerobic gram-negative bacilli and were confirmed to be a useful taxonomic tool and the three genus pairs that were most difficult to distinguish visually were identified.