Microbiome

ME/CFS
British patient charity Invest in ME is raising funds for a gut microbiome study at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom led by professor Simon Carding.

Funds have been raised by patients (originally led by the late Vanessa Li) for Ian Lipkin and Mady Hornig of Columbia University in the United States to perform a study looking at the gut microbiome in ME/CFS patients.

Notable studies

 * 2015, Sleep quality and the treatment of intestinal microbiota imbalance in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: A pilot study (Jackson ML, Butt H, Ball M, Lewis DP, Bruck D)
 * 2015, Changes in Gut and Plasma Microbiome following Exercise Challenge in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) (Shukla SK, Cook D, Meyer J, Vernon SD, Le T, Clevidence D, Robertson CE, Schrodi SJ, Yale S, Frank DN)
 * 2013, High-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing reveals alterations of intestinal microbiota in myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome patients (Frémont M, Coomans D, Massart S, Kenny De Meirleir)
 * 2012, Increased IgA responses to the LPS of commensal bacteria is associated with inflammation and activation of cell-mediated immunity in chronic fatigue syndrome (Michael Maes, Frank Twisk, Kubera M, Ringel K, Leunis JC, Geffard M)
 * 2010, Gut inflammation in chronic fatigue syndrome (Lakhan SE, Kirchgessner A)

Commercial testers

 * uBiome

Academic projects

 * American Gut
 * British Gut Project

Learn more

 * CFS Remission (Ken Lassesen's blogs about experimental ME/CFS microbiome and probiotic treatments)