Table of Contents:
  • Human gastrointestinal tract
  • The normal microbiota: development and contributing factors
  • Impact of disease on the human intestinal microbiota and vice versa
  • Fingerprinting of the gut microbiota
  • Crohn's disease: symptoms, complications, etiology
  • Evidence for microbial involvement in IBD
  • Dysbiosis
  • Genetics and IBD
  • Twin studies
  • Genomics vs. proteomics
  • Metaproteomics and metagenomics
  • Metabolite data