Field notes on the gut
Meet the microbes that live in you.
Every species in the gut, where it's more or less common than in healthy people, and the probiotics that carry it.
01 · Species
Gut regulars
Plate color = phylum BacillotaBacteroidotaActinomycetotaPseudomonadotaVerrucomicrobiotaFusobacteriotaOther
Bacillota No. 001
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii Oscillospiraceae
Can make butyrate
Found in 90% of healthy people 20,688 samples
Bacillota No. 002
Blautia wexlerae Lachnospiraceae
Can make lactic acid
Found in 87% of healthy people 20,683 samples
Bacteroidota No. 003
Bacteroides uniformis Bacteroidaceae
Can make propionate
Found in 87% of healthy people 20,417 samples
Bacteroidota No. 004
Phocaeicola vulgatus Bacteroidaceae
Can make propionate
Found in 82% of healthy people 19,640 samples
Bacteroidota No. 005
Parabacteroides distasonis Tannerellaceae
Can make propionate
Found in 80% of healthy people 18,684 samples
Bacillota No. 006
Fusicatenibacter saccharivorans Lachnospiraceae
Can make lactic acid
Found in 81% of healthy people 18,293 samples
Bacillota No. 007
Blautia faecis Lachnospiraceae
Can make lactic acid
Found in 77% of healthy people 18,046 samples
Bacillota No. 008
Anaerostipes hadrus Lachnospiraceae
Can make butyrate
Found in 78% of healthy people 17,950 samples
Our analysis of GMrepo data · how many healthy people carry each one · GMrepo on Data sources
Browse all 2,435 microbes02 · Conditions
All 169 conditions →Browse by condition
- Colorectal cancer 126 clear differences
- COVID-19 117 clear differences
- Crohn's disease 196 clear differences
- Parkinson's disease 21 clear differences
- Ulcerative colitis 162 clear differences
- Breast cancer 38 clear differences
- Irritable bowel syndrome 51 clear differences
- Type 1 diabetes 6 clear differences
- Gestational diabetes 9 clear differences
- Multiple sclerosis 39 clear differences
- Chronic kidney failure 190 clear differences
- Inflammatory bowel disease 22 clear differences
03 · Tools
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