title: Maternal salivary bacterial challenge is associated with oral infection among children and predicts early childhood caries (ECC) incidence in a high-risk cohort of 36-month-old children.
authors.affiliation: University of Rochester, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, 625 Elmwood Avenue, Box 683, Rochester, NY 14620, USA. Electronic address: Dorota_KopyckaKedzierawski@urmc.rochester.edu.
authors.forename: Dorota T
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Kopycka-Kedzierawski
mesh_terms: D004245:DMF Index; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007778:Lactobacillus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011247:Pregnancy; D012463:Saliva / Q000382:microbiology*; D013295:Streptococcus mutans / Q000302:isolation & purification*