Mother-to-infant transmission of the carcinogenic colibactin-producing bacteria.
Yuta TsunematsuKoji HosomiJun KunisawaMichio SatoNoriko ShibuyaEmiko SaitoHaruka MurakamiYuko YoshikawaYuji IwashitaNoriyuki MiyoshiMichihiro MutohHideki IshikawaHaruhiko SugimuraMotohiko MiyachiKeiji WakabayashiKenji WatanabePublished in: BMC microbiology (2021)
Our finding suggests that transmission of colibactin-positive E. coli appears to be occurring at the very early stage of life of the newborn and hints at the possibility of developing early preventive measures against colorectal cancer.