Streptococcus salivarius and Reduced Streptococcus salivarius Colonization

• Low-Cost Protocol for Quantitative Measurement of Streptococcus salivarius in Human Saliva.

  • 2025-10-31
  • Observational
  • Life (Basel, Switzerland) 15(11)
  • • Flavia-Cristina Al-Akel
    • Lacramioara Eliza Chiperi
    • Krisztina Eszter Vas
    • Edit Szekely
    • Claudia Raluca Mariean
    • Corina Eugenia Budin
    • Anca Bacarea

  • PubMed: 41302119
  • DOI: 10.3390/life15111695

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Streptococcus salivarius Colonization

  • Low evidence

  We describe a simple, low-cost, culture-based method for quantifying S. salivarius in human saliva using Mitis-Salivarius Agar... The method proved reliable for quantifying S. salivarius in concentrations ranging from 5.8 × 10^5 to 6.1 × 10^8 CFU/mL.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small