The role of the gut and microbes in the pathogenesis of spondyloarthritis

M Asquith, D Elewaut, P Lin, JT Rosenbaum - Best practice & research …, 2014 - Elsevier
The intestinal microbiota is firmly implicated not only in the pathogenesis of inflammatory
bowel disease (IBD) but increasingly also in the development of inflammation at
extraintestinal tissue sites. Significant clinical, genetic, immunological, and microbiological
overlap exists between IBD and spondyloarthritis (SpA), which indicates that
pathophysiological mechanisms are shared between these diseases and may center on the
intestinal microbiota. Recently, culture-independent techniques have enabled the microbiota …
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