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August 9, 2012

Pig whipworms, microbes and ulcerative colitis

A study just began at NYU looking at how porcine whipworms change the microbiota of patients with ulcerative colitis. P’ng Loke is leading it. He conducted an earlier study on a fellow who’d acquired a human whipworm infection, and sent his ulcerative colitis into remission. (I tell this guy’s story in the book. It’s remarkable.) A major find to come from Loke’s case study was that resto
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