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Defect of cell wall construction may shield oral bacterias survival in bloodstream and cause infective endocarditis
Medical Hypotheses, 06/19/09

Lu J et al. - Recent studies indicate that the Streptococcus mutans (S. mutans) strains, the major cariogenic bacterium, isolated from the infected valve were deficient in some wall-associated proteins which are main cariogenic virulence of S. mutans, and the deficient stains exhibited less susceptible to antibiotics that act on cell wall biosynthesis.

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