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Acute appendicitis is characterised by local invasion with Fusobacterium nucleatum/necrophorum.
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Abstract
Acute appendicitis is a local intestinal inflammation with unclear origin. The aim was to test whether bacteria in appendicitis differ in composition to bacteria found in caecal biopsies from healthy and disease controls.