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  2. Carcinogenic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Bacteria involved in causing and treating cancers. Cancer bacteria are bacteria infectious organisms that are known or suspected to cause cancer. [1] While cancer-associated bacteria have long been considered to be opportunistic (i.e., infecting healthy tissues after cancer has already established itself), there is some evidence that bacteria may be directly carcinogenic.

  3. List of oncogenic bacteria - Wikipedia

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    Bacteria involved in causing and treating cancers. This is a list of bacteria that have been identified as promoting or causing: Uncontrolled growth of tissue in the body; Cancer; Carcinomas; Tumors (including benign or slow growing) Neoplasms; Sarcomas; Precancerous lesions; Coinfectious agent promoting the above growths

  4. Prokaryote - Wikipedia

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    In bacteria, gene transfer occurs by three processes. These are virus-mediated transduction; [14] conjugation; [16] and natural transformation. [17] Transduction of bacterial genes by bacteriophage viruses appears to reflect occasional errors during intracellular assembly of virus particles, rather than an adaptation of the host bacteria. There ...

  5. Infectious causes of cancer - Wikipedia

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    Herpesviruses also cause cancer in animals, especially leukemias and lymphomas. [13] Human T cell lymphotropic virus was the first human retrovirus discovered by Robert Gallo and colleagues at NIH. [20] The virus causes Adult T-cell leukemia, a disease first described by Takatsuki and colleagues in Japan [21] and other neurological diseases ...

  6. Causes of cancer - Wikipedia

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    The basic cause of sporadic (non-familial) cancers is DNA damage and genomic instability. [1] [2] A minority of cancers are due to inherited genetic mutations. [3] Most cancers are related to environmental, lifestyle, or behavioral exposures. [4] Cancer is generally not contagious in humans, though it can be caused by oncoviruses and cancer ...

  7. A new type of bacteria was found in 50% of colon cancers ...

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    A type of bacteria that causes dental plaque may be behind a treatment-resistant form of colorectal cancer, a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature found.. The particular bacterium ...

  8. Oncovirus - Wikipedia

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    Tumor viruses come in a variety of forms: Viruses with a DNA genome, such as adenovirus, and viruses with an RNA genome, like the hepatitis C virus (HCV), can cause cancers, as can retroviruses having both DNA and RNA genomes (Human T-lymphotropic virus and hepatitis B virus, which normally replicates as a mixed double and single-stranded DNA ...

  9. Cell (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Structure of a typical prokaryotic cell. Prokaryotes include bacteria and archaea, two of the three domains of life. Prokaryotic cells were the first form of life on Earth, characterized by having vital biological processes including cell signaling. They are simpler and smaller than eukaryotic cells, and lack a nucleus, and other membrane-bound ...