Genetic relatedness between oral and intestinal isolates of

Increase in Probing Depth Is Correlated With a Higher Number of Prevotella intermedia Genotypes

“…The arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (AP‐PCR) has been used for fingerprinting individual strains of diverse oral microorganisms species, such as Streptococcus mutans , 3‐5 Porphyromonas gingivalis , 6‐8 Porphyromonas endodontalis , 9 and P. intermedia 10 . Another genetic technique, heteroduplex analysis, was successfully used to distinguish among strains or clonal types of P. gingivalis 11 .…”