Acute appendicitis is characterised by local invasion with Fusobacterium nucleatum/necrophorum.

A, Swidsinski; Y, Dörffel; V, Loening-Baucke; F, Theissig; JC, Rückert; M, Ismail; WA, Rau; D, Gaschler; M, Weizenegger; S, Kühn; J, Schilling; WV, Dörffel

doi:10.1136/gut.2009.191320

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Acute appendicitis is characterised by local invasion with Fusobacterium nucleatum/necrophorum.

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Swidsinski A

Dörffel Y

Loening-Baucke V

Abstract

Background Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies from healthy and disease controls.Methods and patients We investigated sections of 70 appendices using...

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