Vijay Shankar

TL;DR: This review describes and compares the most widely used multivariate statistical techniques including exploratory, interpretive and discriminatory procedures, and presents examples of how these approaches have been utilized in recent studies to provide insight into the ecology of the microbial world.

TL;DR: Although at the higher taxonomical level gut microbiota was similar between healthy and IBS-D children, specific differences in the abundances of several bacterial genera were revealed.

TL;DR: It is concluded that C. difficile infection can be successfully treated by fecal microbiota transplantation and that this leads to stable transformation of the distal gut microbial community from the one abundant in aerotolerant species to that dominated by members of the Clostridia.

TL;DR: Evidence is provided that corroborating differences in fecal microbiota structure and functions and metabolite profiles between Egyptian and U.S. teenagers are consistent with the nutrient variation between Mediterranean and Western diets.

TL;DR: By correlating metabolite levels with abundances of microbial genera, a number of statistically significant metabolite–genus associations were detected in stools of healthy children and those diagnosed with diarrhea-predominant irritable bowel syndrome (IBS-D), and no such associations were evident for IBS children.