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Table 2 Identification of infectious organisms in archival prostate cancer tissue

From: Detection of infectious organisms in archival prostate cancer tissues

   

Overall prevalence

Organism

Aggressive cases

Non-aggressive cases

Tumour tissue

“Normal” tissueb

n = 49

n = 66

n = 115

%

n = 51

%

HSV

0

1

1

0.87

0

0

Mycoplasma genitalium

5

4

9

7.83

1

1.96

Ureaplasma urealyticum

1

0

1

0.87

0

0

Othera

0

0

0

0

0

0

  1. P-values from Fisher exact test comparing the prevalence of each infectious organism between aggressive and non-aggressive samples and between tumour and normal tissue samples are all greater than 0.18.
  2. aOther includes U. parvum, T. vaginalis, C. trachomatis, BKV, HPV and XMRV.
  3. bAdjacent tissue with no histological evidence of cancer.
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