This morning I got an email from Cort Johnson(health rising) putting me in contact with someone working with some microbiome testing firms for  microbiome testing with CFS. The issue was discussing what to test for. I thought in addition to an email response, a public post would be wise — in case I have missed any studies that readers may know about.

This is based on current knowledge and studies on PubMed. Additional items may be discovered in time. Low or High is relative to healthy controls in some patient populations. A recent 2016 studies that associated bacteria to symptoms found that gender was a significant factor in the response[2016]. This may be a factor in why CFS impacts females more than males.

This list may bring home to many people that we are not dealing with a single bacteria (infection) but a shift of an entire population, a challenging scenario to treat!

Items Found to be Low

• Bacteriodes spp.[1998] [2016]
  • Bacteroidaceae [2016]
  • Rickenellaceae [2016]
• Bifodobacterium spp [1998] [2016][2016]
• Clostridum [2016]
• Escherichia coli [1998] [2001]
• Firmicutes [2013] [2016]
  • Ruminococcaceae family [2016]
    • Oscillospira spp [2016]
    • Faecalibacterium prausnitzii [2016]
    • Ruminococcus spp [2016]
• Lactobacillus spp [1998] [2016]

Items Found to be High

 Additional Suspect Bacteria

Gluten Sensitivity is common with a large subset of CFS patients. My earlier post, listed the observed shifts there. I  have reproduce the table below:

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