Preservation of bacterial DNA in 10-year-old guaiac FOBT cards and FIT tubes

J Clin Pathol. 2017 Nov;70(11):994-996. doi: 10.1136/jclinpath-2017-204592. Epub 2017 Aug 22.

Authors

Matheus Couto Furtado Albuquerque¹, Yasmijn van Herwaarden², Guus A M Kortman³, Bas E Dutilh^{4

5}, Tanya Bisseling², Annemarie Boleij¹

Affiliations

¹ Deparment of Pathology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
² Department of Gastroenterology, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Laboratory Medicine, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
⁴ Department of Theoretical Biology and Bioinformatics, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
⁵ Center for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI), Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

No abstract available

Keywords: colorectal cancer; diagnostic screening; microbiology.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Colonoscopy
DNA, Bacterial
Early Detection of Cancer
Guaiac*
Occult Blood*
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S

Substances

DNA, Bacterial
RNA, Ribosomal, 16S
Guaiac