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that there are no financial and personal conflicts of interest that could have inappropriately influenced their work. Copyright: © 2010 Aquino et al.; licensee EDIPUCRS. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. The impact of the maternal’s periodontal status on the detection of periodontal pathogens in newborn children O impacto da condição periodontal materna na detecção de patógenos periodontais em recém-nascido