A research team led by the Gastrointestinal Laboratory (GI Laboratory) at the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences (VMBS) has validated a new diagnostic index that will help veterinarians assess chronic gastrointestinal dysfunction in dogs in the future could be the key to diagnosing and treating gastrointestinal diseases.
In a recent article published in the journal Animals, GI Lab researchers tested their Dysbiosis Index (DI) on the microbiomes of 296 dogs and demonstrated that their index is a valid diagnostic tool for distinguishing between acute and chronic GI dysfunction and detecting it of non-GI diseases.