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Gout driven by highly altered microbiome
Gout driven by highly altered microbiome The microbiome of people with gout resembles that of patients with autoimmune disease, with loss of butyrate-producing bacteria and higher levels of Bacteroides, Prevotella, and Fusobacterium, the gum disease and colorectal cancer-linked bacterium. Patients with gout have a completely different microbiome to healthy individuals; it is associated with chronic inflammation and unregulated urate degradation.…
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