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Patients suffering from periodontitis or periodontosis were selected for the study. Further subdivision of these groups was based on the presence or absence of herpes and/or adenoviruses in their oral lymphocytes and epithelial cells. The phagocytic and bactericidal activities of oral leukocytes isolated from the same individuals were compared with virus carriage. In the periodontitis group, 60.5 %, and in the periodontosis group 61.5 % of patients carried viruses, while this was established only in 21.1 % of control cases. On the other hand, emigration and sulcular gathering of the less viable polymorphonuclear leukocytes was elevated but their phagocytotic activity was decreased among periodontitis patients. Bactericidal capacity was significantly lowered among those subjects who carried viruses in their cells, as compared with virusfree persons, especially in the periodontitis group. The functions of the polymorphonuclear leukocytes accumulated in the sulcus gingivalis may be modified by mediators released from the virus-carrying cells. These mediators could achieve a greater concentration locally, and the damaged leukocytes would not be able to eliminate the microbes continuously so that the accumulation of bacterial products, among them endotoxins, could lead to periodontal inflammation.
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Ongeádi, J., Sallay, K. & Kulcsár, G. The decreased antibacterial activity of oral polymorphonuclear leukocytes coincides with the occurrence of virus-carrying oral lymphocytes and epithelial cells. Folia Microbiol 32, 438–447 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887577
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