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Overview

Bruce J. Paster is affiliated with Harvard University in the United States and has an extensive research portfolio focused primarily on dentistry and medicine. Their work spans several subfields including periodontics, physiology, molecular biology, public health, environmental and occupational health, and oral surgery.

The scientist's research topics encompass oral microbiology and periodontitis, salivary gland disorders and functions, dental health and care utilization, gut microbiota and health, infective endocarditis diagnosis and management, streptococcal infections and treatments, and oral health pathology and treatment.

Recent publications by Bruce J. Paster include:

  • "Association between metabolic syndrome and periodontitis: The role of lipids, inflammatory cytokines, altered host response, and the microbiome" (2021) in Periodontology 2000
  • "Subgingival microbiome and clinical periodontal status in an elderly cohort: The WHICAP ancillary study of oral health" (2020) in Journal of Periodontology
  • "Dental caries and their microbiomes in children: what do we do now?" (2023) in Journal of Oral Microbiology
  • "The bacterial microbiome and metabolome in caries progression and arrest" (2021) in Journal of Oral Microbiology
  • "Comparisons of oral, intestinal, and pancreatic bacterial microbiomes in patients with pancreatic cancer and other gastrointestinal diseases" (2021) in Journal of Oral Microbiology

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Bruce J. Paster include:

  • Tsute Chen
  • Panos N. Papapanou
  • Ryan T. Demmer
  • Bruno Bohn
  • Sumith Roy

Bruce J. Paster has been published most frequently in venues such as:

  • Journal of Oral Microbiology
  • Circulation
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Journal Of Clinical Periodontology
  • npj Biofilms and Microbiomes

Best Publications

  • Defining the Normal Bacterial Flora of the Oral Cavity

    Jørn A. Aas;Jørn A. Aas;Bruce J. Paster;Bruce J. Paster;Lauren N. Stokes;Ingar Olsen

  • The Human Oral Microbiome

    Floyd E. Dewhirst;Floyd E. Dewhirst;Tuste Chen;Jacques Izard;Jacques Izard;Bruce J. Paster;Bruce J. Paster

  • Bacterial Diversity in Human Subgingival Plaque

    Bruce J. Paster;Bruce J. Paster;Susan K. Boches;Jamie L. Galvin;Rebecca E. Ericson

  • Bacteria of Dental Caries in Primary and Permanent Teeth in Children and Young Adults

    Jørn A. Aas;Jørn A. Aas;Ann L. Griffen;Sara R. Dardis;Alice M. Lee

  • The breadth of bacterial diversity in the human periodontal pocket and other oral sites.

    Bruce J Paster;Ingar Olsen;Jørn A Aas;Floyd E Dewhirst

  • Bacteremia Associated With Toothbrushing and Dental Extraction

    Peter B. Lockhart;Michael T. Brennan;Howell C. Sasser;Philip C. Fox

  • Molecular Analysis of Bacterial Species Associated with Childhood Caries

    Mitzi R. Becker;Bruce J. Paster;Bruce J. Paster;Eugene J. Leys;Melvin L. Moeschberger

  • "Checkerboard" DNA-DNA hybridization

    S S Socransky;C Smith;L Martin;B J Paster

  • Diversity of bacterial populations on the tongue dorsa of patients with halitosis and healthy patients

    C. E. Kazor;P. M. Mitchell;A. M. Lee;L. N. Stokes

  • Salivary Biomarkers: Toward Future Clinical and Diagnostic Utilities

    Janice M. Yoshizawa;Christopher A. Schafer;Jason J. Schafer;James J. Farrell

  • Variations of oral microbiota are associated with pancreatic diseases including pancreatic cancer

    James J Farrell;Lei Zhang;Hui Zhou;David Chia

  • Hepatic Helicobacter species identified in bile and gallbladder tissue from chileans with chronic cholecystitis

    James G. Fox;Floyd E. Dewhirst;Zeli Shen;Yan Feng

  • New Bacterial Species Associated with Chronic Periodontitis

    P.S. Kumar;A.L. Griffen;J.A. Barton;B.J. Paster

  • Comparisons of Subgingival Microbial Profiles of Refractory Periodontitis, Severe Periodontitis, and Periodontal Health Using the Human Oral Microbe Identification Microarray

    Ana Paula V. Colombo;Susan K. Boches;Sean L. Cotton;J. Max Goodson

  • Helicobacter hepaticus sp. nov., a microaerophilic bacterium isolated from livers and intestinal mucosal scrapings from mice.

    J G Fox;F E Dewhirst;J G Tully;B J Paster

  • Design of 16S rRNA gene primers for 454 pyrosequencing of the human foregut microbiome

    Carlos W Nossa;William E Oberdorf;Liying Yang;Jørn A Aas;Jørn A Aas

  • The phylogeny of purple bacteria: the alpha subdivision.

    C.R. Woese;E. Stackebrandt;W.G. Weisburg;B.J. Paster

  • Chronic active hepatitis and associated liver tumors in mice caused by a persistent bacterial infection with a novel Helicobacter species.

    Jerrold M. Ward;James G. Fox;Miriam R. Anver;Diana C. Haines

  • Helicobacter bilis sp. nov., a novel Helicobacter species isolated from bile, livers, and intestines of aged, inbred mice.

    J G Fox;L L Yan;F E Dewhirst;B J Paster

  • Lessons learned and unlearned in periodontal microbiology.

    Ricardo Teles;Flavia Teles;Jorge Frias-Lopez;Bruce Paster

Frequent Co-Authors

Floyd E. Dewhirst
Floyd E. Dewhirst Harvard University
Ingar Olsen
Ingar Olsen University of Oslo
Peter Vandamme
Peter Vandamme Ghent University
Anne C. R. Tanner
Anne C. R. Tanner Harvard University
William G. Wade
William G. Wade King's College London
Carl R. Woese
Carl R. Woese University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Philip Stashenko
Philip Stashenko Harvard University
Sigmund S. Socransky
Sigmund S. Socransky Harvard University
Panos N. Papapanou
Panos N. Papapanou Columbia University

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