... to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Dental caries Dual-species biofilm Competition Sucrose Gene expression Original Paper Caries Res 2019;53:194 203 DOI: 10.1159/000490950 Received: April 18, 2018...

... caries Gene expression Streptococcus mutans An exploratory data analysis was performed to select the statistical tests. For bacterial prevalence data, the χ 2 test was used. The S. mutans quantification data were analysed by the Mann-Whitney test and TS and TB data by Student's t test...

... parameters that influence microbial growth and distribution. Bacteria exhibit an altered pattern of gene expression either as a direct result of being on a surface or indirectly as a response to the local environmental heterogeneity within the biofilm. Bacteria communicate via small diffusible signalling...