title: Perialveolar bacterial microbiota and bacteraemia after dental alveolitis in adult rats that had been subjected to neonatal malnutrition.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to analyse the bacteriological factors during the process of dental alveolitis, relating it to a higher incidence of bacteraemia in adult rats subjected to neonatal malnutrition. We used forty male Wistar rats, suckled by mothers fed a diet during lactation containing 17 % protein in the nourished group (N) or 8 % protein in the undernourished group (UN). After weaning, the animals were given the Labina standard diet. After 90 d, these animals underwent upper right incisor extraction and induction of alveolitis. The oral microbiota was obtained using a swab and blood culture through venous blood. These procedures were performed before the extraction, 5 min after extraction, on the 21st day after alveolitis for groups N-21 and UN-21 and on the 28th day after alveolitis for groups N-28 and UN-28. Data were expressed as means and standard deviations for parametric data, and as medians and interquartile intervals for non-parametric data. Statistical significance was considered by assuming a critical level of 5 %. Before and after extraction, lower bacterial growth was observed per colony-forming unit (CFU) in the perialveolar region of the upper right incisors of undernourished animals, while the opposite was true after alveolitis, when a larger number of CFU was observed in these animals. The percentage of positive blood cultures obtained after alveolitis was greater in the undernourished animals. The present study thus demonstrated the influence of neonatal malnutrition in the perialveolar microbiota and in the development of bacteraemia after dental alveolitis.
authors.affiliation: Microbiology Division, Laboratory of Immunopathology Keizo-Asami, Federal University of Pernambuco, Avenida Professor Moraes Rego, 1235, Cidade Universitária, Recife, 50670-901 Pernambuco, Brazil.
authors.forename: Flávia Regina Gonçalves
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: de Araújo
authors.forename: Célia Maria Machado Barbosa
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: de Castro
authors.forename: Judith Advíncula
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Rocha
authors.forename: Bruno
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Sampaio
authors.forename: Maria de Fátima Alves
authors.initials: Mde F
authors.lastname: Diniz
authors.forename: Liriane Baratella
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Evêncio
authors.forename: Ulisses Ramos
authors.initials: UR
authors.lastname: Montarroyos
mesh_terms: D000539:Alveolar Process / Q000382:microbiology*; D000824:Animal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D016470:Bacteremia / Q000209:etiology*; D058491:Bacterial Load; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004368:Dry Socket / Q000209:etiology / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D007571:Jaw Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology*; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications*; D054892:Metagenome; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014081:Tooth Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects