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. 2005 Mar;54(3):388–395. doi: 10.1136/gut.2004.043059

Figure 5.

Figure 5

 Whole stents were hybridised with the universal Eub338 probe. Bacteria (green-orange signal) were spread over the sludge located always above and never below the sludge matrix. Bacteria vanished from the lumen with growing occlusion of the bile stent. Liver side of a partially occluded stent.