Speaking at the Pharmabiotics event in Brussels, William Fusco, a gastroenterologist at Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, highlighted a recently published pilot study on post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) framed within microbial precision medicine and biomarker-driven care. The study compared two patient groups: one treated according to the classic standard of care—an empiric, symptom-based approach—and another managed with a microbiome-informed strategy based on each patient’s specific gut dysbiosis, identified through gut microbiome testing (reported as 16S rRNA sequencing). While both groups showed clinical improvement, the microbiome-informed arm achieved a markedly greater benefit, described as a reduction of more than 150 points on the IBS severity score. Fusco emphasized that this is an early, proof-of-concept experience and that additional evidence is needed to consolidate and validate the method’s effectiveness, while expressing confidence that future results could be even stronger as the approach is refined.
Microbiome testing for post-infectious IBS: a pilot “microbe-informed” approach presented in Brussels
William Fusco, gastroenterologist at Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli, highlighted a recently published pilot study on post-infectious irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) framed within microbial precision medicine and biomarker-driven care.
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