Streptococcus mutans, Candida albicans, and the Human Mouth: A Sticky Situation

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Khalid H. Metwalli,

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Shariq A. Khan,

Affiliation Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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Bastiaan P. Krom,

Affiliation Department of Preventive Dentistry, Academic Centre for Dentistry Amsterdam (ACTA), University of Amsterdam and Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk

* E-mail: mrizk@umaryland.edu

Affiliations Department of Oncology and Diagnostic Sciences, Dental School, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Microbiology and Immunology and Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
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