"Fusobacterium nucleatum" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of gram-negative, anaerobic, rod-shaped bacteria isolated from the gingival margin and sulcus and from infections of the upper respiratory tract and pleural cavity.
| Descriptor ID |
D016967
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.370.250.500 B03.440.425.410.420.500
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| 2002 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fusobacterium nucleatum" by people in Profiles.
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Cahill DP, Barker FG, Davis KR, Kalva SP, Sahai I, Frosch MP. Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 10-2010. A 37-year-old woman with weakness and a mass in the brain. N Engl J Med. 2010 Apr 08; 362(14):1326-33.
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Okugawa T, Kaneko T, Yoshimura A, Silverman N, Hara Y. NOD1 and NOD2 mediate sensing of periodontal pathogens. J Dent Res. 2010 Feb; 89(2):186-91.
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Kapatral V, Anderson I, Ivanova N, Reznik G, Los T, Lykidis A, Bhattacharyya A, Bartman A, Gardner W, Grechkin G, Zhu L, Vasieva O, Chu L, Kogan Y, Chaga O, Goltsman E, Bernal A, Larsen N, D'Souza M, Walunas T, Pusch G, Haselkorn R, Fonstein M, Kyrpides N, Overbeek R. Genome sequence and analysis of the oral bacterium Fusobacterium nucleatum strain ATCC 25586. J Bacteriol. 2002 Apr; 184(7):2005-18.
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Yoshimura A, Kaneko T, Kato Y, Golenbock DT, Hara Y. Lipopolysaccharides from periodontopathic bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis and Capnocytophaga ochracea are antagonists for human toll-like receptor 4. Infect Immun. 2002 Jan; 70(1):218-25.