Preliminary Comparison of Oral and Intestinal Human Microbiota in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Pilot Study

Preliminary Comparison of Oral and Intestinal Human Microbiota in Patients with Colorectal Cancer: A Pilot Study

In this study Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) was used to analyze and compare human microbiota from three different compartments, i.e., saliva, feces, and cancer tissue (CT), of a selected cohort of 10 Italian patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) vs. 10 healthy controls (saliva and feces). Further...

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Main Authors: Edda Russo, Giovanni Bacci, Carolina Chiellini, Camilla Fagorzi, Elena Niccolai, Antonio Taddei, Federica Ricci, Maria N. Ringressi, Rossella Borrelli, Filippo Melli, Manouela Miloeva, Paolo Bechi, Alessio Mengoni, Renato Fani, Amedeo Amedei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
Subjects:
colorectal cancer
gut microbiota
oral microbiota
Fusobacterium nucleatum
quantitative polymerase chain reaction
taxonomic analysis
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmicb.2017.02699/full

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