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SUBMITTER: Xie G
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5597508 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xie Gan G Zhou Qian Q Qiu Chuang-Zhao CZ Dai Wen-Kui WK Wang He-Ping HP Li Yin-Hu YH Liao Jian-Xiang JX Lu Xin-Guo XG Lin Su-Fang SF Ye Jing-Hua JH Ma Zhuo-Ya ZY Wang Wen-Jian WJ
World journal of gastroenterology 20170901 33
<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate whether patients with refractory epilepsy and healthy infants differ in gut microbiota (GM), and how ketogenic diet (KD) alters GM.<h4>Methods</h4>A total of 14 epileptic and 30 healthy infants were recruited and seizure frequencies were recorded. Stool samples were collected for 16S rDNA sequencing using the Illumina Miseq platform. The composition of GM in each sample was analyzed with MOTHUR, and inter-group comparison was conducted by R software.<h4>Results</h4>Aft ...[more]