Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Dental amalgam and multiple antibiotic resistance: an untested hypothesis.

Dental amalgam and multiple antibiotic resistance: an untested hypothesis. Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://aac.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, Aug. 1993, p. 1730-1731 0066-4804/93/081730-02$02.00/0 Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology Vol. 37, No. 8 Letter to the Editor In a recent article in your journal, Summers et al. (3) suggested that exposure to mercury (Hg) from dental amalgams resulted in an increased incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the normal floras of nonmedicated subjects. However, the study does not allow such conclusions, and the authors' inferences are unwarranted. The investigators first reported the results of a study that attempted to correlate the incidence of Hg resistance with that of antibiotic resistance in human fecal flora. This study was meaningless in the context of the paper. The authors failed to obtain data on the amalgam status of their study subjects, and the accuracy of the estimates used is doubtful, considering the age range of the population; inferences relating amalgam placement with increases in the incidence of antibiotic-reistant fecal flora in this population therefore cannot be made. The authors did attempt to directly correlate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy American Society For Microbiology

Dental amalgam and multiple antibiotic resistance: an untested hypothesis.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy , Volume volume 37 (issue 8) – Aug 1, 1993

Dental amalgam and multiple antibiotic resistance: an untested hypothesis.

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy , Volume volume 37 (issue 8) – Aug 1, 1993

Abstract

Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://aac.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, Aug. 1993, p. 1730-1731 0066-4804/93/081730-02$02.00/0 Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology Vol. 37, No. 8 Letter to the Editor In a recent article in your journal, Summers et al. (3) suggested that exposure to mercury (Hg) from dental amalgams resulted in an increased incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the normal floras of nonmedicated subjects. However, the study does not allow such conclusions, and the authors' inferences are unwarranted. The investigators first reported the results of a study that attempted to correlate the incidence of Hg resistance with that of antibiotic resistance in human fecal flora. This study was meaningless in the context of the paper. The authors failed to obtain data on the amalgam status of their study subjects, and the accuracy of the estimates used is doubtful, considering the age range of the population; inferences relating amalgam placement with increases in the incidence of antibiotic-reistant fecal flora in this population therefore cannot be made. The authors did attempt to directly correlate

Loading next page...
 
/lp/american-society-for-microbiology/dental-amalgam-and-multiple-antibiotic-resistance-an-untested-ZLnWbW0rN0

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
American Society For Microbiology
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by the American society for Microbiology.
ISSN
0066-4804
eISSN
1098-6596
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

Receive: RSS Feeds, eTOCs, free email alerts (when new articles cite this article), more» Information about commercial reprint orders: http://aac.asm.org/site/misc/reprints.xhtml To subscribe to to another ASM Journal go to: http://journals.asm.org/site/subscriptions/ ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY, Aug. 1993, p. 1730-1731 0066-4804/93/081730-02$02.00/0 Copyright © 1993, American Society for Microbiology Vol. 37, No. 8 Letter to the Editor In a recent article in your journal, Summers et al. (3) suggested that exposure to mercury (Hg) from dental amalgams resulted in an increased incidence of multiple antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the normal floras of nonmedicated subjects. However, the study does not allow such conclusions, and the authors' inferences are unwarranted. The investigators first reported the results of a study that attempted to correlate the incidence of Hg resistance with that of antibiotic resistance in human fecal flora. This study was meaningless in the context of the paper. The authors failed to obtain data on the amalgam status of their study subjects, and the accuracy of the estimates used is doubtful, considering the age range of the population; inferences relating amalgam placement with increases in the incidence of antibiotic-reistant fecal flora in this population therefore cannot be made. The authors did attempt to directly correlate

Journal

Antimicrobial Agents and ChemotherapyAmerican Society For Microbiology

Published: Aug 1, 1993

There are no references for this article.