Johns Hopkins HIV Guide
Gingivitis/periodontitis
PATHOGENS
Often a mix of bacterial pathogens, occasionally herpesviruses producing proinflammatory cytokines → periodontal breakdown. The list is partial.
- Prevotella gingvivalia and P. intermedia
- Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
- Treponema denticola
- Bacteroides forsythus
- Fusobacterium nucleatum
- Capnocytophaga spp.
- Peptostreptococcus micros
- Spirochetes
- Gram-negative anaerobes
- Candida spp. recovered (esp. in HIV), but unclear if part of the pathology
- Herpes viruses, usually HSV
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Last updated: January 10, 2023
Citation
Auwaerter, Paul G. "Gingivitis/periodontitis." Johns Hopkins HIV Guide, 2023. Johns Hopkins Guides, www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545084/all/Gingivitis_periodontitis.
Auwaerter PG. Gingivitis/periodontitis. Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. 2023. https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545084/all/Gingivitis_periodontitis. Accessed September 23, 2023.
Auwaerter, P. G. (2023). Gingivitis/periodontitis. In Johns Hopkins HIV Guide https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545084/all/Gingivitis_periodontitis
Auwaerter PG. Gingivitis/periodontitis [Internet]. In: Johns Hopkins HIV Guide. ; 2023. [cited 2023 September 23]. Available from: https://www.hopkinsguides.com/hopkins/view/Johns_Hopkins_HIV_Guide/545084/all/Gingivitis_periodontitis.
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