Clinical Study
Enumeration of Salivary Streptococci and Lactobacilli in Children with Differing Caries Experiences in a Rural Indian Population
Table 1
Scheme of biochemical tests (adapted from references [
25,
37]).
| Species | Hydrolysis of arginine | Fermentation of sugars |
Aerobic growth |
Bacitracin resistance | Mannitol | Sorbitol | Inulin | Mellibiose | Raffinose |
| S. mutans | − | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | S. rattus | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | S. cricetus | − | + | + | + | + | + | − | − | S. sobrinus | − | + | ± | + | − | − | + | + |
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