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SUBMITTER: Kleiman SC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5894812 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association 20170606 5
Anorexia nervosa, a severe psychiatric illness, is associated with an intestinal microbial dysbiosis. Individual microbial signatures dominate in healthy samples, even over time and under controlled conditions, but whether microbial markers of the disorder overcome inter-individual variation during the acute stage of illness or renourishment is unknown. We characterized daily changes in the intestinal microbiota in three acutely ill patients with anorexia nervosa over the entire course of hospit ...[more]