Reply #17: I was hoping for bacteria. [View All]

[cosmicaug]

Yeah, Epstein Barr is one of those potentially carcinogenic viruses (isn't there some sarcoma which is also associated with it? --I can almost say the name). Then there'd be some retroviruses causing some leukemias (HTLV --IIRC called HTLV1 & HTLV2 where H.I.V. was originally put into this family as HTVL3 --or something like that-- by Robert Gallo), and, of course, the papilloma viruses being associated with cervical cancers, and hepatitis viruses being associated with liver cancers (IIRC) and I can't think of any others though I might have missed a few (and there certainly are others for non-human animals --the one abstract you quoted mentioning one I had never heard of).

But, since antibiotics were mentioned, I was hoping for bacterial associations. Of course, it's always possible that people are being erroneously treated with antibiotics for viral problems and that that alone could account for such an association with antibiotic use.