Relative carriage rates of nuclear dehydrogenating clostridia in two populations of different colorectal cancer risk
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 36 (1) , 93-95
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.36.1.93
Abstract
Carriage of nuclear dehydrogenating clostridia has been associated with colon cancer and implicated in its etiology. The carriage of these organisms in a British population at high risk for the development of colon cancer was compared with a low risk Nigerian population. Clostridia were found in all of the stools from both populations. Nuclear dehydrogenating clostridia were only found in the stools of the British subjects (32%). The carriage rate of nuclear dehydrogenating clostridia in a population is probably related to the risk of colon cancer.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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