Table 2.
Detection of Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus (SGG), Fusobacterium nucleatum (FN), Bacteroides fragilis, enterotoxigenic B. fragilis (ETBF), Parvimonas micra (PM), and pks island in the stools from CRC, CRA, and control patients using the PCR assay.
| Positive detection of: | Total (N = 129) | Control (N = 25) | CRA (N = 23) | CRC | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global | CRC I+II | CRC III | CRC IV | |||||||||||
| (N = 81) | (N = 26) | (N = 37) | (N = 18) | |||||||||||
| n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % | |
| SGG | 56 | 43.4 | 8 | 32.0 | 7 | 30.4 | 41 | 50.6 | 13 | 50.0 | 19 | 51.4 | 9 | 50.0 |
| FN | 82 | 63.6 | 12 | 48.0 | 13 | 56.5 | 57 | 70.4 | 16 | 61.5 | 28 | 75.7 | 13 | 72.2 |
| BF | 81 | 62.8 | 12 | 48.0 | 19 | 82.6 | 50 | 61.7 | 16 | 61.5 | 25 | 67.6 | 9 | 50.0 |
| ETBF | 44 | 34.1 | 6 | 24.0 | 13 | 56.5 | 25 | 30.9 | 9 | 34.6 | 12 | 32.4 | 4 | 22.2 |
| PM | 103 | 79.8 | 18 | 72.0 | 15 | 65.2 | 70 | 86.4 | 22 | 84.6 | 32 | 86.5 | 16 | 88.9 |
| pks island | 53 | 41.1 | 6 | 24.0 | 7 | 30.4 | 40 | 49.4 | 11 | 42.3 | 16 | 43.2 | 13 | 72.2 |