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This chapter mainly covers the microbes that cause mucosal infection. Many microorganisms can invade the oral mucosa, causing infectious stomatitis. Infectious stomatitis is classified as primary and secondary. The former refers to the inflammatory diseases that occur on the oral mucosa due to the direct invasion of pathogenic microorganisms, such as coccal stomatitis, necrotizing gingival stomatitis, and acute gangrenous stomatitis. The latter refers to the manifestation of systemic infection caused by pathogenic microorganisms in the oral mucosa, such as diphtheria and staphylococcal sepsis. Both primary and secondary infections can be divided into bacterial infection, viral infection, fungal infection, spirochetes infection, actinomycetes infection, mycoplasma infection, chlamydia infection, and rickettsial infection according to the different pathogenic microorganisms. The biological and pathogenic characteristics of representative Gram-positive bacteria, Gram-negative bacteria, mycoplasma, fungi, and virus were introduced in this chapter. Gram staining, plate culture, colony, and scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of each microorganism were also provided.
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Ren, B. et al. (2020). Oral Mucosal Microbes. In: Zhou, X., Li, Y. (eds) Atlas of Oral Microbiology: From Healthy Microflora to Disease. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7899-1_5
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