Prevalence of Streptococcus mutans as an Oral Flora of Dogs kept Indoors

Abstract

The authors attempted to isolate Streptococcus mutans from oral samples taken from 69 dogs kept indoors. Of them, 37 (53.6%) cases had S. mutans.
Among the 37 strains of S. mutans isolated, 15 strains were identified as serovar c (40.5%) and 4 serovar d (10.8%). The serovar of the remaining 18 strains was not able to be specified.