The "infectious" nature of human prostate cancer: A cautionary note

Oncotarget

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 281-283

  Sfanos, Karen S ^a   Isaacs, John T ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA 16S;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL TRANSFORMATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROSTATE BIOPSY; PROSTATE CANCER; PROSTATITIS; RECTUM BIOPSY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TISSUE CHARACTERIZATION; TUMOR VIRUS; VIRUS DETECTION; CARCINOMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NOTE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSTATE TUMOR; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

CARCINOMA; HELICOBACTER INFECTIONS; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MYCOPLASMA HOMINIS; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 80053304060     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19492553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18632/oncotarget.267     Document Type: Article

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