title: Fecal bacterial flora of four nordic population groups with diverse incidence of large bowel cancer.
abstract: Fecal samples were collected and biologically examined from 4 population groups, exhibiting a 3-fold range in colon cancer incidence, in Denmark and Finland. Carrier rates and counts per gram feces of several aerobic as well as anaerobic genera, including nuclear dehydrogenase-producing clostridia, were calculated. The results obtained with the described method did not confirm a relationship between colon cancer incidence and carrier rates of intestinal bacteria.
mesh_terms: D001439:Bacteroides; D003013:Clostridium; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D003718:Denmark; D004755:Enterobacteriaceae; D005051:Eubacterium; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology*; D005387:Finland; D005673:Fusobacterium; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged