Significant difference in gut microbiota Bifidobacterium species but not Lactobacillus species in colorectal cancer patients in comparison with healthy volunteers using quantitative real-time PCR

• Fahime Esfandiari,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Bita Bakhshi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: b.bakhshi@modares.ac.ir (BB); Sara.minaeian@gmail.com (SM)

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7523-7905

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• Tayebe Shahbazi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Elahe Derakhshan-nezhad,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

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• Mahboube Bahroudi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

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• Sara Minaeeian ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision

  * E-mail: b.bakhshi@modares.ac.ir (BB); Sara.minaeian@gmail.com (SM)

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mina Boustanshenas,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources

  Affiliation Antimicrobial Resistance Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Forough Alborzi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Behnam Behboudi,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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• Mohamad Sadegh Fazeli

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Department of Surgery, Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

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