The pivotal role of oral microbiota in health and disease.

Abstract

Human microbiota, especially of the gut and the oral ones, represent one of the most interesting current topics in biomedicine. The term microbiota is considered a neologism originated in the early 21st century thanks to Joshua Lederberg, a US microbiologist awarded with Nobel Prize in 1958 “for his discoveries concerning genetic recombination and the organization of the genetic material of bacteria”, but he was actually the first to popularize such term when it was overlapped with the term “microbiome” [...]

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