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Combined effect of a mixture of tetracycline, acid, and detergent, and Nisin against Enterococcus faecalis and Actinomyces viscosus biofilms

Hanan A. Balto, Zahid A. Shakoor and Maha A. Kanfar
Saudi Medical Journal January 2015, 36 (2) 211-215; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.2.9947
Hanan A. Balto
From the Division of Endodontic (Balto), Department of Restorative Dental Science, Dental Caries Research Chair, Department of Pathology (Shakoor), College of Medicine and University Hospitals, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, and the Dental Department (Kanfar), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Zahid A. Shakoor
From the Division of Endodontic (Balto), Department of Restorative Dental Science, Dental Caries Research Chair, Department of Pathology (Shakoor), College of Medicine and University Hospitals, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, and the Dental Department (Kanfar), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Maha A. Kanfar
From the Division of Endodontic (Balto), Department of Restorative Dental Science, Dental Caries Research Chair, Department of Pathology (Shakoor), College of Medicine and University Hospitals, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, and the Dental Department (Kanfar), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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vol. 36 no. 2 211-215
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2015.2.9947
PubMed 
25719587

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received August 7, 2014
  • Accepted October 13, 2014
  • Published online February 1, 2015.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hanan A. Balto, BDS, MSc⇑,
  2. Zahid A. Shakoor, MD, PhD and
  3. Maha A. Kanfar, BDS, SB-Endo
  1. From the Division of Endodontic (Balto), Department of Restorative Dental Science, Dental Caries Research Chair, Department of Pathology (Shakoor), College of Medicine and University Hospitals, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, and the Dental Department (Kanfar), King Fahad Military Medical Complex, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Hanan Balto, Department of Restorative Dental Science, College of Dentistry, King Saud University, PO Box 62645, Riyadh 11595, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: h_balto{at}yahoo.com
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