{"id":904,"date":"2025-12-02T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/oral-bacteria-tied-to-more-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T13:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T13:00:17","slug":"oral-bacteria-tied-to-more-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/12\/02\/oral-bacteria-tied-to-more-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral bacteria tied to more severe multiple sclerosis symptoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/02\/oral-bacteria-tied-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms\/\" title=\"Oral bacteria tied to more severe multiple sclerosis symptoms\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/TeethBrushing.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"An illustration of a toothbrush brushing a set of teeth.\" style=\"margin: auto;margin-bottom: 15px;max-width: 100%\" data-wp-pid=\"155437\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have higher levels of Fusobacterium nucleatum in the mouth \u2014 bacteria that can contribute to periodontitis, a serious gum infection \u2014 may be more likely to experience more severe symptoms, according to a study from Japan. This finding adds to recent preclinical evidence suggesting that periodontitis may be associated [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/02\/oral-bacteria-tied-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms\/\">Oral bacteria tied to more severe multiple sclerosis symptoms<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\">Multiple Sclerosis News Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com\/news-posts\/2025\/12\/02\/oral-bacteria-tied-severe-multiple-sclerosis-symptoms\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">multiplesclerosisnewstoday.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with multiple sclerosis (MS) who have higher levels of Fusobacterium nucleatum in the mouth \u2014 bacteria that can contribute to periodontitis, a serious gum infection \u2014 may be more likely to experience more severe symptoms, according to a study from Japan. This finding adds to recent preclinical evidence suggesting that periodontitis may be associated&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11,15,9,8,13,14,12,10],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multiple-sclerosis-research","tag-brain-repair","tag-marburg-type-ms","tag-ms","tag-multiple-sclerosis","tag-myelin","tag-neuroregeneration","tag-oligodendrocyte","tag-remyelination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wickedsister.evit.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}