Multiple pathogens and prostate cancer

Table 2 Cutabacterium acnes infections and prostate cancer

Study	Country	Method	Prostate cancer	Prostate non cancer controls	P value
Alexeyev 2006 [53]	Sweden	PCR	13/159 8%	6/159 4%	0.119 ns
Sfanos 2007 [54]	US	Bacterial cultures PCR	5/8 63% 10/200 5%	3/8 38%	0.562 ns
Severi 2010 [55]	Australia	Serology	407/808 50%	332/584 57%	0.001 s
Bae 2014 [56]	Japan	IHC	27/28 96%	14/18 78%	0.630 ns
Davidsson 2016 [57]	Sweden	Bacterial cultures	60/100 60%	13/50 26%	0.001 s
Kakegawa 2017 [58]	Japan	IHC	7/44 15%	2/36 5%	0.218 ns

PCR, polymerase chain reaction; IHC, immunohistochemistry; s, significant, ns, not significant

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