Tracking Human Gut Microbiome Changes Resulting from a Colonoscopy
L. Smarr, E. R. Hyde, D. McDonald, W. J. Sandborn, R. Knight. Methods of Information in Medicine. 56(6):442-447 (2017).
Introduction
The human gut microbiome is known to vary on daily time scales and have major ecological shifts in disease states. Pharmaceutical interventions have also been observed to cause sudden changes in microbial composition.