Eliminating the bacteria early in the oral cavity is ... and expand its application to other conditions caused by ...

One of those microbes, Fusobacterium nucleatum, can travel down the digestive tract and latch onto cells throughout the gut.

One likely candidate is gum disease. A series of studies have identified periodontitis, a bacterial infection that eats away soft tissue and eventually bone around teeth, as a risk factor for OSCC.

Its lead preclinical programs target Clostridioides difficile for infectious disease and Fusobacterium nucleatum for colorectal ... diseases as well as bacteria implicated in the pathology of ...