Around a fifth of people may be carrying the bacterium linked to some cancer cases, say researchers.
The researchers suspect it may contribute to a minority of bowel cancer cases - one in 20 or five in every 100 - but more research is needed to confirm the link.
They then compared the damage seen with more than 5,000 bowel cancer samples taken from patients and found identical patterns or"fingerprints" of DNA damage in around 5% of the samples.
One of the researchers, Prof Hans Clevers, from the Hubrecht Institute in The Netherlands, said:"Common antibiotics will kill these bacteria.
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