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Does bacterial infection cause genome instability and cancer in the host cell?

Olga Kovalchuk1, Paul Walz1, Igor Kovalchuk1

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge T1K 3M4, Alberta, Canada.

Mutation Research
|January 30, 2014
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Keywords:
Bacterial infectionBystander effectCancerCell proliferationGenome stabilityLipopolysaccharides

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