Old age and other factors associated with salivary microbiome variation

• Main Authors: Joel L. Schwartz (Author), Natalia Peña (Author), Nadia Kawar (Author), Andrew Zhang (Author), Nicholas Callahan (Author), Steven J. Robles (Author), Andrew Griebel (Author), Guy R. Adami (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Many factors can contribute to the exact makeup of the salivary microbiome. Differences in the oral microbiome occur with old age, which may be due to oral conditions and diseases associated with old age, such as edentulism, as well as other unknown causes. Methods The salivary m...