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Editorial
. 2017 Feb;5(3):53.
doi: 10.21037/atm.2017.01.63.

The multiple sclerosis microbiome?

Helen Tremlett  1 , Emmanuelle Waubant  2
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Editorial

The multiple sclerosis microbiome?

Helen Tremlett et al. Ann Transl Med. 2017 Feb.
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: H Tremlett (none in relation to this work) is the Canada Research Chair for Neuroepidemiology and Multiple Sclerosis. She currently receives research support from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the Multiple Sclerosis Scientific Research Foundation. In addition, in the last five years she has received research support from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada (Don Paty Career Development Award); the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research (Scholar Award) and the UK MS Trust; speaker honoraria and/or travel expenses to attend conferences from the Consortium of MS Centres [2013], the National MS Society (2012, 2014, 2016), Teva Pharmaceuticals [2011], ECTRIMS (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016), UK MS Trust [2011], the Chesapeake Health Education Program, US Veterans Affairs [2012], Novartis Canada [2012], Biogen Idec [2014], American Academy of Neurology (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). All speaker honoraria are either declined or donated to an MS charity or to an unrestricted grant for use by her research group. E Waubant has no conflicts of interest to declare.

Comment on

  • Alterations of the human gut microbiome in multiple sclerosis.
    Jangi S, Gandhi R, Cox LM, Li N, von Glehn F, Yan R, Patel B, Mazzola MA, Liu S, Glanz BL, Cook S, Tankou S, Stuart F, Melo K, Nejad P, Smith K, Topçuolu BD, Holden J, Kivisäkk P, Chitnis T, De Jager PL, Quintana FJ, Gerber GK, Bry L, Weiner HL. Jangi S, et al. Nat Commun. 2016 Jun 28;7:12015. doi: 10.1038/ncomms12015. Nat Commun. 2016. PMID: 27352007 Free PMC article.

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