Microbial pathogenesis
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Microbial pathogenesis · Dec 2014
Tongue images and tongue coating microbiome in patients with colorectal cancer.
Tongue diagnosis, as a unique method of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), discriminates physiological functions and pathological conditions by observing the changes of the tongue coating. ⋯ Tongue diagnosis may provide important leads towards novel microbiome-related diagnostic tools and tongue coating microbiome may be a novel biomarker for characterizing patient with colorectal cancer.