title: Dental caries--a transmissible and infectious disease revisited: a position paper.
authors.forename: P W
authors.initials: PW
authors.lastname: Caufield
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003731:Dental Caries / Q000382:microbiology*; D003733:Dental Caries Susceptibility; D005220:Fathers; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical; D008297:Male; D009035:Mothers; D051381:Rats; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000635:transmission*; D013295:Streptococcus mutans / Q000235:genetics / Q000254:growth & development / Q000472:pathogenicity / Q000502:physiology*; D014774:Virulence