Genotypic diversity and acidogenicity of Streptococcus mutans in Down syndrome children.
Maurício José Santos MoreiraNatália Mincato KlausAna Paula Dall'OnderDébora GrandoClarissa Cavalcanti Fatturi ParoloLavinia Schuler FacciniLina Naomi HashizumePublished in: Special care in dentistry : official publication of the American Association of Hospital Dentists, the Academy of Dentistry for the Handicapped, and the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry (2019)
DS children have a lower S. mutans genotypic diversity and genotypes with lower acidogenicity than those of non-DS children. However these findings were not associated with their caries experience.