Functional abdominal pain and discomfort (IBS) is not associated with faecal microbiota composition in the general population

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
² Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
³ Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
⁶ Department of Medicine II, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

Comment

Fabian Frost et al. Gut. 2019 Jun.

. 2019 Jun;68(6):1131-1133.

doi: 10.1136/gutjnl-2018-316502. Epub 2018 Jun 2.

¹ Department of Medicine A, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
² Department of Functional Genomics, Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
³ Chair of Experimental Bioinformatics, TUM School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology, Christian Albrechts University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany.
⁶ Department of Medicine II, University Hospital, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Munich, Germany.

No abstract available

Keywords: abdominal pain; colonic microflora; functional bowel disorder; intestinal microbiology.

Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

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