Alterations in the gut microbiome tied to inflammatory types of arthritis

A large team of inflammation and arthritic specialists, immunologists and other medical researchers affiliated with a number of institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has found a connection between the human gut microbiome and inflammatory types of arthritis. In their study, reported in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group compared the gut biomes of healthy people with those who have different types of inflammatory arthritis.