The role of methanogenic archaea might be particularly relevant for bloating, which is one of the symptoms of irritable bowel syndrome, and a recent study has shown a highly significant (fourfold) reduction of methanogenic archaea in irritable bowel syndrome patients relative to controls ( Rajilić-Stojanović et al. , 2011 ).
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The first 1000 cultured species of the human gastrointestinal microbiota.
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