Ketogenic diet poses a significant effect on imbalanced gut microbiota in infants with refractory epilepsy

Xie, Gan; Zhou, Qian; Qiu, Chuangzhao; Dai, Wenkui; Wang, Heping; Li, Yinhu; Liao, Jianxiang; Lu, Xinguo; Lin, Sufang; Ye, Jinghua; Ma, Zhuo-Ya; Wang, Wenjian

doi:10.3748/wjg.v23.i33.6164

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Ketogenic diet poses a significant effect on imbalanced gut microbiota in infants with refractory epilepsy

Published in World Journal of Gastroenterology • Sep 7, 2017

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Gan Xie

Qian Zhou

Chuangzhao Qiu

Abstract

AIM: To investigate whether patients with refractory epilepsy and healthy infants differ in gut microbiota (GM), and how ketogenic diet (KD) alters GM. METHODS: A total of 14 epileptic and 30 healthy infants were recruited and seizure frequencies were recorded. Stool samples were collected for 16S r...

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Ketogenic diet

Epilepsy

Bacteroides

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