The Role of Fecal Fusobacterium nucleatum and pks⁺ Escherichia coli as Early Diagnostic Markers of Colorectal Cancer

Table 2

General characteristic of patients and controls.

	Control	CAP	CRC
(male/female)	42 (31/11)	37 (19/18)	60 (32/28)
Age
WBC
PLT
RBC
Hb
CEA
CA19-9
F. nucleatum	8 (19.05%)	22 (59.46%)	43 (71.67%)
pks^+ E. coli	9 (21.43%)	25 (67.57%)	42 (70.00%)
FOBT	0	24 (64.86%)	52 (86.67%)

WBC (10⁹/l), PLT (10⁹/l), RBC (10¹²/l), Hb (g/l), CEA (ng/ml), and CA19-9 (ng/ml). Number of positive samples (percentage).