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ArticleScientific reports2020

Bacterial diversity and functional analysis of severe early childhood caries and recurrence in India.

Balakrishnan Kalpana, Puniethaa Prabhu, Ashaq Hussain Bhat, Arunsaikiran Senthilkumar, Raj Pranap Arun, Sharath Asokan, Sachin S Gunthe, Rama S Verma

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Balakrishnan KalpanaDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Puniethaa PrabhuDepartment of Biotechnology, K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Ashaq Hussain BhatDepartment of Biotechnology, K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Arunsaikiran SenthilkumarDepartment of Biotechnology, K. S. Rangasamy College of Technology, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Raj Pranap ArunDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Sharath AsokanDepartment of Pediatric Dentistry, K. S. R Institute of Dental Science and Research, Tiruchengode, Tamil Nadu, India.
Sachin S GuntheDepartment of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Rama S VermaDepartment of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. vermars@iitm.ac.in.

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Abstract

Dental caries is the most prevalent oral disease affecting nearly 70% of children in India and elsewhere. Micro-ecological niche based acidification due to dysbiosis in oral microbiome are crucial for caries onset and progression. Here we report the tooth bacteriome diversity compared in Indian children with caries free (CF), severe early childhood caries (SC) and recurrent caries (RC). High quality V3-V4 amplicon sequencing revealed that SC exhibited high bacterial diversity with unique combination and interrelationship. Gracillibacteria_GN02 and TM7 were unique in CF and SC respectively, while Bacteroidetes, Fusobacteria were significantly high in RC. Interestingly, we found Streptococcus oralis subsp. tigurinus clade 071 in all groups with significant abundance in SC and RC. Positive correlation between low and high abundant bacteria as well as with TCS, PTS and ABC transporters were seen from co-occurrence network analysis. This could lead to persistence of SC niche resulting in RC. Comparative in vitro assessment of biofilm formation showed that the standard culture of S. oralis and its phylogenetically similar clinical isolates showed profound biofilm formation and augmented the growth and enhanced biofilm formation in S. mutans in both dual and multispecies cultures.

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BiofilmsFusobacteriaHumansPhylogenyStreptococcus mutansStreptococcus oralis

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PMCPMC7718907

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