Oral carriage of enterobacteriaceae among school children with chronic nail-biting habit

CONTEXT: Onychophagia or habitual nail-biting is widespread among children and adolescents, between 10 and 18 years. Prevalence estimates range from 30% during childhood to 45% in adolescence. Nail-biting habit can result in autoinoculation of pathogens and transmission of infection between body par...

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Autores principales: Reddy, Sushma, Sanjai, Karpagaselvi, Kumaraswamy, Jayalakshmi, Papaiah, Lokesh, Jeevan, MB
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
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Original Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250072
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.119743

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3830220/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24250072
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-029X.119743

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