Metabarcoding of Colonic Cleansing Fluid Reveals Unique Bacterial Members of Mucosal Microbiota Associated With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) is a group of chronic idiopathic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract associated with the dysbiosis of gut microbiota. Metabarcoding-based profiling of the gut microbiota of IBD patients is generally based on the stool samples collected from individual patients which rarely represent the mucosa-associated microbiota.