dental plaque

BTO:0000338 ·resolve ·HOST_ASSOCIATED ·EXACT SEEDED

A soft, thin film of food debris, mucin, and dead epithelial cells deposited on the teeth, providing the medium for the growth of various bacteria. The main inorganic components are calcium and phosphorus, with small amounts of magnesium, potassium, and sodium; the organic matrix consists of polysaccharides, proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, and other components. Plaque plays an important etiologic role in the development of dental caries and periodontal and gingival diseases and provides the base for the development of materia alba; calcified plaque forms dental calculus. — BTO

Machine-generated and unreviewed. Its grounding comes from the seeder's rules, not from a curator.

Source attestations

Each upstream vocabulary's own account of this habitat. Assertion counts are per-source units and are not comparable across sources — GOLD counts organisms, BacDive strains, PREGO taxa.

What each upstream vocabulary says about this habitat
Source	Label / path	Assertions	Unit
PREGO	dental plaque	10	TAXON

Associated taxa

Taxa reported from this habitat, which is weaker than being characteristic of it. rank is out of pool: a high rank in a pool of thousands of near-tied scores is a weak claim. Entries corroborated by a second, independent source are listed first.

Taxa reported from this habitat
Taxon	Source	Rank	Pool
Streptococcus mutans PKUSS-HG01 `NCBITaxon:1403829`	PREGO	1	10
Streptococcus mutans PKUSS-LG01 `NCBITaxon:1404260`	PREGO	2	10
Fusobacterium nucleatum W1481 `NCBITaxon:1408287`	PREGO	3	10
Streptococcus sp. A12 `NCBITaxon:1759399`	PREGO	4	10
Actinomyces sp. Chiba101 `NCBITaxon:1851395`	PREGO	5	10
Treponema denticola ATCC 35405 `NCBITaxon:243275`	PREGO	6	10
Veillonella parvula `NCBITaxon:29466`	PREGO	7	10
Citrobacter amalonaticus `NCBITaxon:35703`	PREGO	8	10
Streptococcus sanguinis SK36 `NCBITaxon:388919`	PREGO	9	10
Streptococcus gordonii str. Challis substr. CH1 `NCBITaxon:467705`	PREGO	10	10

Also called

bacterial plaque — PREGO
bacterial plaques — PREGO
dental plaques — PREGO

Provenance

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