Rosier, Bob T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3267-6561
Johnston, William
Carda-DiƩguez, Miguel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9566-0321
Simpson, Annabel
Cabello-Yeves, Elena
Piela, Krystyna
Reilly, Robert
Artacho, Alejandro
Easton, Chris
Burleigh, Mia
Culshaw, Shauna
Mira, Alex http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9127-3877
Article History
Received: 11 August 2023
Revised: 13 November 2023
Accepted: 5 December 2023
First Online: 5 January 2024
Change Date: 26 January 2024
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: A Correction to this paper has been published:
Change Details: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41368-024-00283-2
Competing interests
: The authors declared the following potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: A.M. and B.T. Rosier are coinventors in a pending patent application owned by the FISABIO Institute, which protects the use of nitrate as a prebiotic and certain nitrate-reducing bacteria as probiotics. The remaining authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki (2013). For the study involving periodontitis patients, the London-Stanmore Research Ethics Committee (Reference: 14/LO/206) of the National Health Service (NHS, England, United Kingdom) gave ethical approval. For the study involving saliva samples of healthy patients, the MVLS ethical committee (project number: 2011002) of the University of Glasgow (Scotland, United Kingdom) gave ethical approval.