Bacteria in the gut of autistic children different from non-autistic children
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 - 21:30
in Health & Medicine
The underlying reason autism is often associated with gastrointestinal problems is an unknown, but new results reveal that the guts of autistic children differ from other children in at least one important way: many children with autism harbor a type of bacteria in their guts that non-autistic children do not.