Microarray analysis of microbiota of gingival lesions in noma patients.

• Main Authors: Antoine Huyghe (Author), Patrice François (Author), Andrea Mombelli (Author), Manuela Tangomo (Author), Myriam Girard (Author), Denise Baratti-Mayer (Author), Ignacio Bolivar (Author), Didier Pittet (Author), Jacques Schrenzel (Author), Geneva Study Group on Noma (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Noma (cancrum oris) is a gangrenous disease of unknown etiology affecting the maxillo-facial region of young children in extremely limited resource countries. In an attempt to better understand the microbiological events occurring during this disease, we used phylogenetic and low-density microarrays...