… Boches SK, Lee AM, Paster BJ, Dewhirst FE. Development of a human oral microbe …
Boches SK, Paster BJ, Dewhirst FE. Development of a human oral microbe identification …

… The genus Fusobacterium has subtypes in all three of the habitats: F. nucleatum on teeth,
F. periodonticum on tongue, and an unnamed species, Fusobacterium sp. HMT (Human …

The spirochetes are free-living or host-associated, helical bacteria, some of which are
pathogenic to man and animal. Comparisons of 16S rRNA sequences demonstrate that the …

More than 700 bacterial species or phylotypes, of which over 50% have not been cultivated,
have been detected in the oral cavity. Our purposes were (i) to utilize culture-independent …

… tree construction was written by FE Dewhirst in Microsoft QuickBasic and has been previously
described (48) (the program is available from FE Dewhirst). Trees for this work were made …

… Programs for data entry, editing, sequence alignment, secondary structure comparison,
similarity matrix generation, and phylogenetic tree construction were written by FE Dewhirst (36). …

Although Streptococcus mutans has been implicated as a major etiological agent of dental
caries, our cross-sectional preliminary study indicated that 10% of subjects with rampant …

… The cloning, sequencing, aligning, treeing and clustering methods used to create HOMD
are described in detail in a manuscript submitted elsewhere (FE Dewhirst et al., submitted for …

… Programs for data entry, editing, sequence alignment, secondary structure comparison,
similarity matrix generation, and phylogenetic tree construction were written by FE Dewhirst (27). …

A method is introduced for hybridizing large numbers of DNA samples against large numbers
of DNA probes on a single support membrane. Denatured DNA from up to 43 samples was …