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Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans: Clinical Significance of a Pathobiont Subjected to Ample Changes in Classification and Nomenclature

Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen
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Rolf Claesson
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Anne Birkeholm Jensen
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Carola Höglund-Åberg
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Dorte Haubek
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Version 1 : Received: 2 October 2019 / Approved: 3 October 2019 / Online: 3 October 2019 (14:04:07 CEST)

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Nørskov-Lauritsen, N.; Claesson, R.; Birkeholm Jensen, A.; Åberg, C.H.; Haubek, D. Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans: Clinical Significance of a Pathobiont Subjected to Ample Changes in Classification and Nomenclature. Pathogens 2019, 8, 243. Nørskov-Lauritsen, N.; Claesson, R.; Birkeholm Jensen, A.; Åberg, C.H.; Haubek, D. Aggregatibacter Actinomycetemcomitans: Clinical Significance of a Pathobiont Subjected to Ample Changes in Classification and Nomenclature. Pathogens 2019, 8, 243.

Abstract

Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans is a Gram-negative bacterium that is part of the oral microbiota. The aggregative nature of this pathogen or pathobiont is crucial to its involvement in human disease. It has been cultured from non-oral infections for more than a century, while the portrayal as an aetiological agent in periodontitis has emerged more recently. Although A. actinomycetemcomitans encodes several putative toxins, the complex interplay with other partners of the oral microbiota and the suppression of the initial host response may be central for inflammation and infection in the oral cavity. The aim of this review is to provide a comprehensive update on the clinical significance, classification, and characterisation of A. actinomycetemcomitans, which has exclusive or predominant host specificity for humans.

Keywords

adherence; endocarditis; fimbriae; jp2; leukotoxin; periodontitis

Subject

Medicine and Pharmacology, Dentistry and Oral Surgery

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