The microbiome reflects diagnosis and predicts disease severity in paediatric onset inflammatory bowel disease.

Conclusions: In this study, we found that the microbiome could discriminate between IBD phenotypes and predict which patients were at risk of surgery. In the future, this could be included as part of the diagnostic work-up in IBD patients. PMID: 31329473 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research