Archive for January 23, 2010

First Oral Bacteria Linking A Mother And Her Stillborn Baby

Yiping Han, a researcher from Department of Periodontics at Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine, reports the first documented link between a mother with pregnancy-associated gum disease to the death of her fetus. The findings are discussed in the article, “Term Stillbirth Caused by Oral Fusobacterium nucleatum,” in the February issue of Obstetrics [...]

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