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Environmental effects on oral biofilm communities

2018· dissertation· en· W2955657627 on OpenAlex
Monika Naginyte

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Bibliographic record

VenueWhite Rose eTheses Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York) · 2018
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldDentistry
TopicOral microbiology and periodontitis research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiofilmFastidious organismSalivaPrevotellaMicrobiologyBiologyActinomycesOral MicrobiomeDysbiosisMicrobiomeMetagenomicsStreptococcus mutansPeriodontitisBacteriaMedicineDentistry
DOInot available

Abstract

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Background: Periodontitis is associated with shifts in the balance of the microbial composition of subgingival biofilms. Many species that predominate in disease have not been isolated from healthy sites or are found in low abundance, raising questions as to the reservoir or origin of these putative pathogens.
\nAims: This project aims to generate an in vitro model of dysbiosis to demonstrate whether it is possible to observe the outgrowth of low abundance disease-associated species from biofilms taken from healthy sites and subjects by mimicking a disease-promoting environment. 
\nMaterials and Methods: The Calgary Biofilm Device and several types of protein-rich media were used to culture five-species microbial communities. Then, the optimised model was used to culture complex biofilms using an inoculum of plaque and saliva from healthy young adult volunteers in media mimicking the nutritional status of the inflamed periodontal pocket. Later, three-week complex biofilms were cultured just in sterile human saliva to see whether changes in the enriched biofilms could be reversed. Metagenomics was used to characterise the taxonomy and functional potential of biofilms, and longitudinal comparisons were performed on biofilms and the inoculum. 
\nResults: The inoculum consisted mainly of health-associated genera, such as Streptococcus, Actinomyces and Haemophilus. After culture in various media for one or three weeks, the biofilm composition shifted and numerous fastidious and periodontal disease-associated species belonging to genera Bacteroidetes, Fretibacterium, Prevotella and Alloprevotella were enriched. These enriched biofilms, subsequently cultured solely in human saliva, showed a minor decrease in disease associated-species. There was a shift in functional activities, with cultured biofilms having a greater abundance of genes associated with virulence.
\nConclusion: The results suggest that the source of the periodontal pathogens is the healthy human mouth, and that these species can be enriched at the expense of health-associated species in a nutritional environment resembling inflammation.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.279
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0030.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it