BACTERIAL GENESIS OF CALCIUM PHOSPHATES IN HUMAN ORGANISM AND NATURE

Abstract

Comparison of natural marine (nodular and granular) carbonate-apatites and pathogenic mineral structures formed in human cardiac valves by methods of scanning electron and high-resolution transmission microscopy revealed common morphological features corresponding to the bacterial origin of calcium phosphates. These features may be considered typomorphic ones regardless of their formation environments (in vivo or in nature).