Retraction: Tobacco smoking affects the salivary gram-positive bacterial population

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. 2025 Jul 1:13:1654640.

doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1654640. eCollection 2025.

Abstract

[This retracts the article DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00196.].

Tobacco Smoking Affects the Salivary Gram-Positive Bacterial Population.
Grine G, Royer A, Terrer E, Diallo OO, Drancourt M, Aboudharam G. Grine G, et al. Front Public Health. 2019 Jul 19;7:196. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2019.00196. eCollection 2019. Front Public Health. 2019. Retraction in: Front Public Health. 2025 Jul 01;13:1654640. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1654640. PMID: 31380336 Free PMC article. Retracted.

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