
Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases
Description
Key Features
- Stipulates the defensive roles of saliva, an important topic not previously reviewed in-depth in literature
- Provides awareness that saliva also transmits infectious agents that can produce serious or even lethal diseases
- Gives understanding that kissing may be an at-risk practice
Readership
Microbiologists, immunologists, virologists, researchers in dentistry, professionals in biomedical research
Table of Contents
1. Pathophysiology of saliva and the paradoxal protective role of saliva
2. Oral bacteria transmissible by saliva and kissing
3. Systemic bacteria transmissible by kissing
4. Viral diseases transmissible by kissing
5. Fungi, protozoa and other infective agents transmissible by kissing
Product details
- No. of pages: 122
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2017
- Published: July 19, 2017
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128136812
- eBook ISBN: 9780128136829
About the Authors
Crispian Scully
Affiliations and Expertise
Jacobo Limeres
Affiliations and Expertise
Pedro Diz Dios
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