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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 19.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Microbiol. 2017 Feb 22;2:17008. doi: 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2017.8

Figure 1 ∣. Environmental changes can promote dysbiosis and pathogen-derived susceptibility to cancer.

Figure 1 ∣

Disruption of the healthy microbiota by environmental factors, such as inflammation, can both increase host susceptibility to carcinogenic pathogens (such as Helicobacter) and expose the host to the cancer risks associated with dysbiosis.