When human beings travel around the world, their gut
flora change in composition, shifting the ratios of different microbial species and even introducing new species.
Not exact matches
I think this study shows that a high - fiber diet does very little
in altering the
composition of gut
flora, while a high RS diet makes immediate
changes, favoring butyrate producers, and creating an environment hostile to pathogenic species.
In dogs with SIBO there are not only increased numbers of intraluminal bacteria, but the
composition of the
flora also
changes to a predominantly anaerobic one, resembling that of the colon.
In sick dogs, the variety of bacteria strains are less, what you feed a dog does make a difference and can
change the gut
flora composition, different
composition preferences appear with different diseases, not all diseases will respond accordingly to the same set of probitoics.
Malabsorption of fat soluble vitamins and cobalamin, and
changes in the number and
composition of the small intestinal bacterial
flora have also been documented
in dogs with EPI and may contribute to their clinical condition (Williams et al 1987; Westermarck et al 1993b; Adamama - Moraitou et al 2002).