Circulating bacterial signature is linked to metabolic disease and shifts with metabolic alleviation after bariatric surgery.

Rima M ChakarounLucas MassierAnna Heintz-BuschartNedal SaidJoerg FallmannAlyce CraneTatjana SchützArne DietrichMatthias BlüherMichael StumvollNiculina MusatPeter Kovacs

Published in: Genome medicine (2021)

We show that the circulating bacterial signature reflects metabolic disease and its improvement after bariatric surgery. Our work provides contaminant-aware evidence for the presence of living bacteria in the blood and suggests a putative crosstalk between components of the blood and metabolism in metabolic health regulation.

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