Molli This line of research was also triggered by the IL23 and ERAP1 genetic discoveries to AS. These point to the gut and an australian researcher named Dr Brown deserves huge kudos for those discoveries and this line of reasoning as well.
Another bit from the article
"We will also gain more knowledge about how diet affects the microbiome and we will develop ways to restore the health of the bowel, sometimes by replacing or eliminating specific bacteria and sometimes by replacing or eliminating the products that bacteria make or induce within the intestine. In the meantime, FMT, the transplantation of bacteria from feces, is being actively studied to treat inflammatory bowel disease. My colleagues and I hope that by 2016, we will be allowed by the FDA and ethics committees to try the same strategy in a limited number of patients with ankylosing spondylitis."
I will ask the SAA if I can post the article in its entirity here. I respect their $$ spent and their membership though.
