Question: What is Actinobacillus Actinomycetemcomitans?

Asked by pnemonoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosis to Arti, Chris, Dustin, James, Steven on 19 May 2012.

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  1. Photo: Dustin WelbourneDustin Welbourne
    answered on 19 May 2012:

    Hi Pnemono

    I think you know exactly what it is, now go and brush your teeth.

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  2. Photo: Chris ScarlettChris Scarlett
    answered on 19 May 2012:

    Hey pnemo. One of the problems with these guys is that if you do have a cut/wound in the mouth, these bugs can enter your blood system and re-populate around the heart causing some potentially serious heart inflammation. Yep, go and clean your teeth!!

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  3. Photo: Arti SinghArti Singh
    answered on 19 May 2012:

    Hi pnemo,
    You really like scientific names, don’t you? 🙂
    Ok, so we all know what Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans is but no one has actually said what it is! If anyone is interested in reading what it actually is, A.actinomycetemcomitans is a bacterium that can be found in the mouth! It is associated periodontal diseases such as ‘localised aggressive periodontitis’, which affects mainly the gums.

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  4. Photo: James ByrneJames Byrne
    answered on 20 May 2012:

    Pffft, you know this…
    It’s one of the 600+ species of bacteria that live in your mouth. Because the conditions in your mouth are perfect for bacteria grown (warm, wet, dark, full of nutrients) you can support a very large flora and in a single millilitre (about half a coke bottle lid) of saliva there is approximately 100 million individual bacterial cells!

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  1. Photo: pnemonoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosispnemonoultramicroscopicsillicovolcanoconiosis
    commented on 20 May 2012:

    Yeah I do like scientific names but I seriously didn’t know what this was I only had it as a avatar

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