Lollipop containing Glycyrrhiza uralensis extract reduces Streptococcus mutans colonization and maintains oral microbial diversity in Chinese preschool children

• Yandi Chen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yandi Chen, Melissa Agnello

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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• Melissa Agnello ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Yandi Chen, Melissa Agnello

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Márcia Dinis,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Kenneth C. Chien,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Dentistry, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8774-4229

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• Jing Wang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation College of Pharmaceutical Science, Shandong University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jinan, China

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• Wei Hu,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State Key Lab of Microbial Technology, Microbial Technology Institute, Shandong University, Qingdao, China

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• Wenyuan Shi,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Xuesong He ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zoujing1970@126.com (JZ); xhe@forsyth.org (XH)

  Affiliation The Forsyth Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3333-9188

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• Jing Zou

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: zoujing1970@126.com (JZ); xhe@forsyth.org (XH)

  Affiliation State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

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