Bacterial infections associated with cancer: Possible implication in etiology with special reference to lateral gene transfer

Cancer and Metastasis Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 331-337

  Khan, Abdul Arif ^a   Shrivastava, Abhinav ^b  

^a Cancer Hospital and Research Institute   (India)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cancer associated bacteria; Carcinogenesis; Chronic inflammation; Helicobacter pylori; Horizontal DNA transfer

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL CYCLE REGULATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA TRANSFER; GENE MUTATION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HORIZONTAL GENE TRANSFER; HUMAN; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STOMACH CANCER;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GENE TRANSFER, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS;

EID: 77954564203     PISSN: 01677659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10555-010-9217-4     Document Type: Review

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