Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases

Saliva is a complex body fluid essential to health, especially mastication, swallowing and speech, and hyposalivation leads to dysfunction and also to liability to infections. Mechanical cleansing and innate and acquired immunity underlie protection. There is a complex interaction between micro-organisms and protective factors. Thus the cariogenic and periodontopathogenic flora responsible for the common and important mouth diseases are transmitted by parents and others to infants. More serious pathogens such as herpesviruses and papillomaviruses can be conveyed by kissing - as can potentially lethal micro-organisms present in some saliva such as meningococci, fungal organisms and Ebola viruses. Saliva Protection and Transmissible Diseases provides a review of saliva protection and raises debate on micro-organisms potentially transmissible in saliva, and to consider the evidence on diseases that may be transmitted by kissing. Stipulates the defensive roles of saliva, an important topic not been previously reviewed in-depth in literatureProvides awareness that saliva also transmits infectious agents that can produce serious or even lethal diseasesGives understanding that kissing may be an at-risk practice and development of preventive strategies is mandatory INDICE: 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

• ISBN: 978-0-12-813681-2
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 100
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés