eHealth: Disease activity measures are related to the faecal gut microbiota in adult patients with ulcerative colitis.
CONCLUSIONS: In patients with UC, results of both methods are associated with disease activity, correlating significantly with Peptostretococcus anaerobius (16S-seq) and with Proteobacteria, Shigella spp. and Escherichia spp. (DNA test).
PMID: 33045169 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology - Category: Gastroenterology Tags: Scand J Gastroenterol Source Type: research
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