Abstracts tagged "microbiome and oral"

Abstract Number: 148 • 2017 Pediatric Rheumatology Symposium
Oral Microbial Profile in Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Sriharsha Grevich^1,2, Peggy Lee³, Jeffrey McLean³, Brian Leroux³, Sarah Ringold^1,2, Kyle Hager⁴, Mitchell Brittnacher⁴, Hillary Hayden⁴, Samuel Miller⁴ and Anne Stevens^1,2,5, ¹University of Washington, Department of Pediatrics, Seattle, WA, ²Seattle Children's Hospital, Seattle, WA, ³University of Washington, School of Dentistry, Seattle, WA, ⁴University of Washington, Department of Microbiology, Seattle, WA, ⁵Center for Immunity and Immunotherapies, Seattle Children's Research Institute, Seattle, WA
Background/Purpose: Microbial communities in the mouth have been associated with the chronic inflammation of periodontitis and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and there is higher prevalence of…