| 摘要 |
Provided are a method for detecting inflammatory bowel disease and a method for testing human salivary flora, whereby it is possible to conduct an accurate pathological evaluation with a simple test. The base sequences of 16S ribosomal RNA genes from flora in a saliva sample taken from a test subject are determined at random to obtain a base sequence data set, and salivary analytes associated with inflammatory bowel disease are detected on the basis of the obtained base sequence data set. In such cases, it is preferable to use indices such as: the number of bacterial strains constituting the salivary flora, determined on the basis of the data set; the number of cluster groups based on the similarity between the base sequences included in the data set; the similarity distance between the group and a group of healthy subjects, determined on the basis of the data set; and the abundance of bacteria belonging to specific phyla, genera and species among the salivary flora, determined on the basis of the data set. |
