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13.06.2023 | Comment
The relationship between the upper aerodigestive microbiome axis and head and neck cancers: it is time to bet on it?
verfasst von:
Pietro De Luca, Marco Radici, Angelo Camaioni
Erschienen in:
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
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Ausgabe 9/2023
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Excerpt
One of the first scientists to explore the world of microbes and to unknowingly establish the basis of the microbiota’s world was Anthony van Leeuwenhoek, in 1681, who observed “more than 1000 living animalcules” while examining his own watery stools under the microscope; only a century and a half later, the debate around the existence of microorganisms in the human gut was started by the observation of a Scottish surgeon, John Goodsir, who discovered a microorganism which he named Sarcina ventriculi when examining the ejected fluid from the stomach of a 19-year old patient. …