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Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Particularly the Constipation-Predominant Form, Involves an Increase in<i>Methanobrevibacter smithii</i>, Which Is Associated with Higher Methane Production

Ujjala Ghoshal, Ratnakar Shukla, Deepakshi Srivastava, Uday C. Ghoshal

Gut and Liver · 2016 · 126 citations · 25 references

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Patients with IBS, particularly IBS-C, had higher copy numbers of <i>M. smithii</i> than HC. On LHBT, breath methane levels correlated with <i>M. smithii</i> loads.

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