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Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology 9/2023

13-06-2023 | Respiratory Microbiota | Comment

The relationship between the upper aerodigestive microbiome axis and head and neck cancers: it is time to bet on it?

Authors: Pietro De Luca, Marco Radici, Angelo Camaioni

Published in: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology | Issue 9/2023

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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. …
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Title
The relationship between the upper aerodigestive microbiome axis and head and neck cancers: it is time to bet on it?
Authors
Pietro De Luca
Marco Radici
Angelo Camaioni
Publication date
13-06-2023
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology / Issue 9/2023
Print ISSN: 0937-4477
Electronic ISSN: 1434-4726
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-023-08037-2

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