A bacterial driver-passenger model for colorectal cancer: Beyond the usual suspects

Nature Reviews Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 575-582

  Tjalsma, Harold ^a   Boleij, Annemarie ^a,b   Marchesi, Julian R ^c   Dutilh, Bas E ^d,e  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTINOMYCETALES; AGGREGATIBACTER; ANAEROVORAX; BACTEROIDES; CANCER GROWTH; CLOSTRIDIALES; CLOSTRIDIUM; COLLINSELLA; COLORECTAL CANCER; CORIOBACTERIACEAE; CORIOBACTERIUM; ENTEROBACTERIACEAE; ERYSIPELOTRICHACEAE; EUBACTERIUM; FAECALIBACTERIUM; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIUM; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; INTESTINE FLORA; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCACEAE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROSEBURIA; RUMINOCOCCACEAE; SLACKIA; STREPTOCOCCACEAE;

BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; BIOTA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84863989936     PISSN: 17401526     EISSN: 17401534     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrmicro2819     Document Type: Review

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