
#1561Medicine & HealthFront Page1 February 2026
The paediatric IBD Microbiome: Genomic Precision in a Stagnant Field
Metagenomic sequencing identifies distinct bacterial signatures in children with IBD, offering high diagnostic accuracy compared to healthy controls. However, current clinical markers still outperform these profiles in predicting treatment response, suggesting we are at the early stages of this genomic application.
By Vermeer, Prins, Hidding, Jagt, de Jonge, Benninga, Gacesa, Weersma, de Boer, de Meij