"Porphyromonas gingivalis" 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 originally classified within the BACTEROIDES genus. This bacterium produces a cell-bound, oxygen-sensitive collagenase and is isolated from the human mouth.
| Descriptor ID |
D016966
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B03.140.094.625.515 B03.440.425.410.194.625.515
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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