Profiling Fusobacterium infection at high taxonomic resolution reveals lineage-specific correlations in colorectal cancer

Abstract The bacterial genus Fusobacterium promotes colorectal cancer (CRC) development, but an understanding of its precise composition at the species level in the human gut and the relevant association with CRC is lacking. Herein, we devise a Fusobacterium rpoB amplicon sequencing (FrpoB-seq) meth...

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Main Authors: Dexi Bi, Yin Zhu, Yaohui Gao, Hao Li, Xingchen Zhu, Rong Wei, Ruting Xie, Chunmiao Cai, Qing Wei, Huanlong Qin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30957-6