A widely used sampling device in colorectal cancer screening programmes allows for large-scale microbiome studies

Gut. 2019 Sep;68(9):1723-1725. doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-316225. Epub 2018 Sep 21.

Dita Gudra^#¹, Saeed Shoaie^#^{2

3}, Davids Fridmanis¹, Janis Klovins¹, Hugo Wefer^{2

4}, Ivars Silamikelis¹, Raitis Peculis¹, Ineta Kalnina¹, Ilze Elbere¹, Ilze Radovica-Spalvina¹, Rolf Hultcrantz², Ģirts Šķenders^{5

6}, Marcis Leja^#^{5

6}, Lars Engstrand^#^{2

4}

¹ Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia.
² Centre for Translational Microbiome Research, Department of Microbiology Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ Centre for Host-Microbiome Interactions, Dental Institute, King's College London, London, UK.
⁴ Science for Life Laboratory, Solna, Sweden.
⁵ Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.
⁶ Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: colonic microflora; epidemiology.

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