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

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Published in Gut on November 18, 2009

Authors

Alexander Swidsinski1, Yvonne Dörffel, Vera Loening-Baucke, Franz Theissig, Jens C Rückert, Mahmoud Ismail, Walter A Rau, Dagmar Gaschler, Michael Weizenegger, Sigmar Kühn, Johannes Schilling, Wolf V Dörffel

Author Affiliations

1: Humboldt University, Charité Hospital, CCM, Laboratory for Molecular Genetics, Polymicrobial Infections and Bacterial Biofilms, Berlin, Germany. alexander.swidsinski@charite.de

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