Prevalence and association of pks⁺ Escherichia coli with colorectal cancer in patients at the University Malaya Medical Centre, Malaysia

• Thevambiga Iyadorai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9258-620X

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• Vanitha Mariappan,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, University of Malaya Centre of Proteomics Research (UMCPR), University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Kumutha Malar Vellasamy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Jane Wangui Wanyiri,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• April Camilla Roslani,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, University of Malaya Cancer Research Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Goh Khean Lee,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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• Cynthia Sears,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Jamuna Vadivelu

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jamuna@um.edu.my

  Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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