Dog stool microbiome predicts canine inflammatory bowel disease
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 - 07:36
in Health & Medicine
A pattern of microbes that is indicative of inflammatory bowel disease has been identified in dogs. With more than 90 percent accuracy, the team used that information to predict which dogs had IBD. However, they also determined that the gut microbiomes of dogs and humans are not similar enough to use dogs as animal models for humans with this disease.