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<<Disclaimer: Verify this information before applying it to your situation.>>
In a followup study, the compositions of microflora inhabiting the guts
of normal children, children with active celiac disease, and symptom-
free CD children on a gluten-free diet were compared. Some bacteria
species returned to normal levels after treatment, but "the ratio of
Lactobacillus-Bifidobacterium to Bacteroides-E. coli was significantly
reduced in coeliac patients with either active or inactive disease
compared with controls." Clearly probiotics would be useful to
increase the proportion of Lactobacillus-Bifidobacterium in CD patients.
However, as yet, there is no "smoking-gun" linking a specific bacteria
species with the onset of CD.
J Med Microbiol. 2007 Dec;56(Pt 12):1669-74.
Imbalance in the composition of the duodenal microbiota of children
with coeliac disease.
Nadal I, Donant E, Ribes-Koninckx C, Calabuig M, Sanz Y.
Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (Consejo Superior
de Investigaciones Cientificas), Apartado 73, 46100 Burjassot,
Valencia, Spain.
http://jmm.sgmjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/56/12/1669 .
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