Alterations of the fecal microbiota in Chinese patients with multiple sclerosis

In our study, we compared the fecal microbiota from MS group with the healthy control cohort using high-throughput sequencing technique and tried to explore the potential key functional fecal microbiota that were associated with MS. We had uncovered several decreased predominant genus-level taxa known to contain butyrate producers in MS cohort, which indicated that these butyrate-producing gut bacteria might participate actively in the development of MS.