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1 Department of Biophysics, Division of Basic Sciences, US Army Institute of Dental Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20012, USA
Scanning microscopy of rat tongue showed that bacterial habitation of the tongue was almost completely localized to the middle third of the anterior surface of the filiform papillae. Transmission microscopy showed coccal forms attached to the surface of the epithelium by means of fibrillar strands and present up to four cell layers deep within the epithelium.
Submitted on July 15, 1974
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