How diarrhoeal bacteria cause some colon cancers

Sunday, August 23, 2009 - 12:14 in Health & Medicine

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have figured out how bacteria that cause diarrhoea may also be the culprit in some colon cancers. The investigators say that strains of the common Bacteroides fragilis (ETBF) dupe immune system cells into permitting runaway colon tissue inflammation, a precursor for malignant growth...

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