Table 2 Summary of Fusobacterium isolates recovered from this study.

From: Tumour microbiomes and Fusobacterium genomics in Vietnamese colorectal cancer patients

Phylogenetic cluster

Species

Subspecies

Isolation source

Number of isolates

intraclonal SNV

Patient ID

Tumour location

Cancer stage

Fusobacterium relative abundance (%)b

T10_Fa1

F. nucleatum

animalis

Tumour

2

5

P10

Sigmoid

IIB

2.6/24

TH10_Fa2

F. nucleatum

animalis

Tumour-nontumour

5

2

S16-12

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Oral

1

 

P16

Sigmoid

IIB

10/34

S16-17

F. periodonticum

–

Oral

1

 

T16_Fp

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Tumour

2

3

H16_Fa

F. nucleatum

animalis

Nontumour

2

0

S16_Fa

F. nucleatum

animalis

Oral

2

10

TH16_Fvi

F. nucleatum

vincentii

Tumour-nontumour

6

1

H18-18

F. nucleatum

animalis

Nontumour

1

 

P18

Descending

IIA

0.3/0.8

S18-79

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Oral

1

 

S18-78

F. hwasookii

–

Oral

1

 

S18-66

F. periodonticum

–

Oral

1

 

S18_Fperi1

F. periodonticum

–

Oral

2

1

S18_Fperi2

F. periodonticum

–

Oral

2

1

S18_Fh

F. hwasookii

–

Oral

2

4

TH18_novelFperi

Novel F. periodonticum1

–

Tumour-nontumour

6

2

S28-2

F. periodonticum

–

Oral

1

 

P28

Sigmoid

IV

14/39

T28_Fn

F. nucleatum

nucleatum

Tumour

3

1

S40-28

F. nucleatum

animalis

Oral

1

 

P40

Sigmoid

IIIB

27/10

TH40_novelFperi

Novel F. periodonticuma

–

Tumour-nontumour

2

2

S40_Fp

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Oral

2

2

S46-13

F. nucleatum

vincentii

Oral

1

 

P46

Sigmoid

IIIB

3.8/20

S46-17

F. nucleatum

vincentii

Oral

1

 

S46-7

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Oral

1

 

S46-16

F. nucleatum

polymorphum

Oral

1

 

T46_Fa

F. nucleatum

animalis

Tumour

3

3

  1. SNV single nucleotide variant.
  2. aDenotes a potential new subspecies.
  3. bFusobacterium relative abundance, inferred from 16S rRNA gene profiling results, showed the values for non-tumour/tumour samples for each cancer patient.
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