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Patient Derived Cell Culture and Isolation of CD133+ Putative Cancer Stem Cells from Melanoma
Published on: March 13, 2013
Is this the historical 'cancer germ'?
Milton Wainwright1, Abdullah Al Talih
1University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK. m.wainwright@sheffield.ac.uk
Abstract:
A highly pleomorphic bacterium, isolated from a canine mammary tumour was found to share many characteristics with recently described cancer-related bacteria and with the Glover organism, a historically important 'cancer germ'. We suggest that both the Glover organism, and possibly other cancer-related bacteria, are likely to be a strain of the highly pleomorphic bacterium, Bacillus licheniformis.
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