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Patients with BTC (n = 30) and benign biliary disease (BBD) without cholangitis (n = 11) were included. Ten healthy, age-matched subjects were also recruited for fecal microbiota comparison. The fecal and bile duct microbiotas were analyzed by sequencing the 16S rRNA gene V3-V4 region. Live bacteria were obtained in the bile from three BTC patients by culture, and metagenomics-based identification was performed. Linear discriminant analysis effect size showed a higher Enterobacteriaceae abundance and a lower Clostridia abundance, including that of Faecalibacterium and Coprococcus, in the BTC patients than in the other subjects. Ten of 17 operational taxonomic units (OTUs) assigned to Enterobacteriaceae in the bile were matched with the OTUs found in the BTC subject fecal samples. Furthermore, a bile-isolated strain possessed the carcinogenic bacterial colipolyketide synthase-encoding gene. 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