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Overview

William G. Wade is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of Medicine and Dentistry, with significant contributions to both. Within these areas, their subfields of study include Periodontics, General Dentistry, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Molecular Biology, and Nutrition and Dietetics.

The scientific topics covered by their work include Dental Research and COVID-19, Oral microbiology and periodontitis research, Infection Control and Ventilation, Gut microbiota and health, Infant Nutrition and Health, COVID-19 diagnosis using AI, and Preterm Birth and Chorioamnionitis.

William G. Wade has published research in multiple venues, with frequent publications in BDJ Open, Journal of Dental Research, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Periodontology 2000, and Journal of Dentistry. Their recent papers include:

  • Resilience of the oral microbiome, 2021, Periodontology 2000
  • Profiling of Oral Bacterial Communities, 2020, Journal of Dental Research

Other relevant papers from the literature include those on dentistry and microbiota topics, such as "A systematic review of droplet and aerosol generation in dentistry" (2020) published in the Journal of Dentistry.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William G. Wade include Nicola Innes, Ilona Johnson, Waraf Al-Yaseen, Rebecca Harris, and Rhiannon Jones.

Best Publications

  • The Human Oral Microbiome

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

  • Design and Evaluation of Useful Bacterium-Specific PCR Primers That Amplify Genes Coding for Bacterial 16S rRNA

    Julian R. Marchesi;Takuichi Sato;Andrew J. Weightman;Tracey A. Martin

  • The oral microbiome in health and disease

    William G. Wade

  • The oral microbiome – an update for oral healthcare professionals

    M Kilian;I L C Chapple;M Hannig;P D Marsh

  • Design and Evaluation of Useful Bacterium-Specific PCR Primers That Amplify Genes Coding for Bacterial 16S rRNA

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  • Strategies for culture of ‘unculturable’ bacteria

    Sonia R. Vartoukian;Richard M. Palmer;William G. Wade

  • Actinomyces and Related Organisms in Human Infections

    Eija Könönen;William G. Wade

  • Molecular Analysis of the Microflora Associated with Dental Caries

    M A Munson;Avijit Banerjee;Tim Watson;William Wade

  • Molecular and Cultural Analysis of the Microflora Associated with Endodontic Infections

    M.A. Munson;T. Pitt-Ford;B. Chong;A. Weightman

  • Unculturable bacteria--the uncharacterized organisms that cause oral infections.

    William Wade

  • Description of Alloprevotella rava gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from the human oral cavity, and reclassification of Prevotella tannerae Moore et al. 1994 as Alloprevotella tannerae gen. nov., comb. nov.

    Julia Downes;Floyd E. Dewhirst;Floyd E. Dewhirst;Anne C. R. Tanner;William G. Wade

  • Bacterial community development in experimental gingivitis.

    James O. Kistler;Veronica Booth;David J. Bradshaw;William G. Wade

  • Molecular analysis of microflora associated with dentoalveolar abscesses.

    D Dymock;A J Weightman;C Scully;William Wade

  • Characterization of novel human oral isolates and cloned 16S rDNA sequences that fall in the family Coriobacteriaceae: description of olsenella gen. nov., reclassification of Lactobacillus uli as Olsenella uli comb. nov. and description of Olsenella profusa sp. nov.

    Floyd E. Dewhirst;Bruce J. Paster;Nia Tzellas;Brittney Coleman

  • Has the use of molecular methods for the characterization of the human oral microbiome changed our understanding of the role of bacteria in the pathogenesis of periodontal disease

    William Geoffrey Wade

  • Novel subgingival bacterial phylotypes detected using multiple universal polymerase chain reaction primer sets.

    A. Lillo;F. P. Ashley;R. M. Palmer;M. A. Munson

  • A molecular analysis of the bacteria present within oral squamous cell carcinoma.

    Samuel James Hooper;St-John Vincent Crean;Michael J. Fardy;Michael Alexander Oxenham Lewis

  • The division "Synergistes".

    Sonia R. Vartoukian;Richard M. Palmer;William G. Wade

  • The family Coriobacteriaceae: reclassification of Eubacterium exiguum (Poco et al. 1996) and Peptostreptococcus heliotrinreducens (Lanigan 1976) as Slackia exigua gen. nov., comb. nov. and Slackia heliotrinireducens gen. nov., comb. nov., and Eubacterium lentum (Prevot 1938) as Eggerthella lenta gen. nov., comb. nov.

    William G. Wade;Julia Downes;David Dymock;Sarah J. Hiom

  • Viable Bacteria Present within Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma Tissue

    Samuel James Hooper;St-John Vincent Crean;Michael Alexander Oxenham Lewis;David A. Spratt

  • The magnitude and duration of the effects of some mouthrinse products on salivary bacterial counts.

    S Jenkins;M Addy;William Wade;R G Newcombe

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Addy
Martin Addy University of Bristol
Andrew J. Weightman
Andrew J. Weightman Cardiff University
Floyd E. Dewhirst
Floyd E. Dewhirst Harvard University
Robert G. Newcombe
Robert G. Newcombe Cardiff University
Bruce J. Paster
Bruce J. Paster Harvard University
David Beighton
David Beighton King's College London
Michael Millar
Michael Millar Barts Health NHS Trust
Anne C. R. Tanner
Anne C. R. Tanner Harvard University
Eija Könönen
Eija Könönen University of Turku
Michael A. Curtis
Michael A. Curtis King's College London

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