Characteristics of Fecal and Mucosa-Associated Microbiota in Chinese Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• Published in: Medicine (Baltimore) Vol. 93; no. 8; p. e51
• Main Authors: Chen, Liping, Wang, Wei, Zhou, Rui, Ng, Siew C., Li, Jin, Huang, Meifang, Zhou, Feng, Wang, Xin, Shen, Bo, A. Kamm, Michael, Wu, Kaichun, Xia, Bing
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc 01.08.2014; Wolters Kluwer Health
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Asian Continental Ancestry Group; Butyrates - metabolism; Colitis, Ulcerative - microbiology; Crohn Disease - microbiology; Enterococcus - isolation & purification; Escherichia - isolation & purification; Feces - microbiology; Female; Humans; Intestinal Mucosa - microbiology; Male; Microbiota; Middle Aged; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Shigella - isolation & purification

The intestinal microbiota plays an important role in the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), and geographical and genetic backgrounds impact the composition of the intestinal microbiota. However, there is a lack of evidence regarding the overall changes and characteristics of fecal-ass...