Analysis of the effect of smoking on the buccal microbiome using next-generation sequencing technology.

CONCLUSION: The results of the current study indicate that smoking is a factor influencing buccal microbiome composition. In addition, sequencing of all seven hypervariable regions yielded more accurate results than those with any of the single variable regions.
PMID: 31199220 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Journal of Medical Microbiology - June 13, 2019 Category: Microbiology Authors: Karabudak S, Ari O, Durmaz B, Dal T, Basyigit T, Kalcioglu MT, Durmaz R Tags: J Med Microbiol Source Type: research