Evolving Concepts: How Diet and the Intestinal Microbiome Act as Modulators of Breast Malignancy

Table 1

The composition of human colonic microbiome: phylums and selected major species belonging to each phylum [14, 17].

Phylum	Species
Actinobacteria	Bifidobacterium
Bacteroidetes	Bacteroides, Prevotella, Porphyromonas
Verrucomicrobia	Akkermansia
Firmicutes	Clostridium, Faecalibacterium, Ruminococcus, Roseburia, Veillonella, Staphylococcus, Streptococcus, segmented filamentous bacteria, Butyrivibrio
Tenericutes	Erysipelotrichaceae
Proteobacteria	Citrobacter, Enterobacter, E.  coli, Shigella, Klebsiella, Hemophilus, Sphingomonas
Cyanobacteria	Unclassified YS2