Acute appendicitis is characterised by local invasion with <i>Fusobacterium nucleatum</i> / <i>necrophorum</i>

Swidsinski, Alexander; Dörffel, Yvonne; Loening‐Baucke, Vera; Theissig, F; C. Rückert, J.; Ismail, Mahmoud; A. Rau, W.; Gaschler, D.; Weizenegger, Michael; Kühn, S.H.; Schilling, Johannes; Dörffel, W.

doi:10.1136/gut.2009.191320

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

Published in Gut • Nov 18, 2009

Authors:

Alexander Swidsinski

Yvonne Dörffel

Vera Loening‐Baucke

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 us...

Subject

Fusobacteria

Fusobacterium

Fusobacterium nucleatum

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