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Prevalence of pks-positive Escherichia coli in Japanese patients with or without colorectal cancer
12 Jun 2017
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies show that some Escherichia coli strains possessing a gene cluster named the pks island might have a causative role in the development of human colorectal cancer (CRC). In several reports from Europe, they are found more prevalently in colon tissue specimens derived from CRC patients compared to those from controls. In this study we sought to clarify the difference in pks prevalence between CRC...
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