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From: Oral microbiota in the oral-genitourinary axis: identifying periodontitis as a potential risk of genitourinary cancers

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Oral microbiota in periodontal health (left) and disease (right). The predominant bacteria identified by Human Microbiome project or NGS-based studies in periodontal health (left) and periodontal disease (right) are shown in the figure. F. nucleatum acts as a mutualist in healthy periodontal tissue. In periodontitis, F. nucleatum turns into an opportunistic pathogen and functions as a bridge organism to bind P. gingivalis through the fusobacterial adhesins RadD, Fap2 and FomA. NGS next-generation sequencing

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