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. 2019 Jul;68(7):1335-1337.
doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-316661. Epub 2018 Jun 22.

Patients with colorectal cancer have identical strains of Fusobacterium nucleatum in their colorectal cancer and oral cavity

Yasuhiko Komiya  1   2 , Yumi Shimomura  3 , Takuma Higurashi  1 , Yutaka Sugi  3 , Jun Arimoto  1 , Shotaro Umezawa  1 , Shiori Uchiyama  1 , Mitsuharu Matsumoto  3 , Atsushi Nakajima  1
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Patients with colorectal cancer have identical strains of Fusobacterium nucleatum in their colorectal cancer and oral cavity

Yasuhiko Komiya et al. Gut. 2019 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: colorectal cancer; intestinal bacteria.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1
Detection of Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies in paired colorectal cancer and saliva samples. (A) Schematic of the experimental procedures. AP-PCR, arbitrarily primed PCR; CRC, colorectal cancer; Fn, Fusobacterium nucleatum. See online supplementary information for more details. (B) Flowchart of the study process. FS agar, Fusobacterium-selective agar. (C) AP-PCR patterns detected with primer D11344. Data are representative of at least two independent experiments. Identical pairs are highlighted in yellow or blue. GL, gene ladder (0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.7, 1.0, 1.3, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 7.0, 10 and 20 kbp). Subspecies, an, nu, po and vi are F. nucleatum subsp. animalis, F. nucleatum subsp. nucleatum, F. nucleatum subsp. polymorphum and F. nucleatum subsp. vincentii, respectively.
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