Association between Herpesviruses and Chronic Periodontitis: A Meta-Analysis Based on Case-Control Studies

• Ce Zhu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ce Zhu, Fei Li

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

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• Fei Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ce Zhu, Fei Li

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

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• May. Chun. Mei Wong,

  Affiliation Dental Public Health, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

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• Xi-Ping Feng,

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

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• Hai-Xia Lu ,

  * E-mail: ritalu0225@hotmail.com (HXL); rommelxu@gmail.com (WX)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this study.

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Ninth People’s Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Shanghai, China

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• Wei Xu

  * E-mail: ritalu0225@hotmail.com (HXL); rommelxu@gmail.com (WX)

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this study.

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Shanghai Municipal Hospital for Oral Health, Shanghai, China

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