Test
Clinical Utility
This test characterizes the abundance and diversity of more than 45 targeted analytes that peer-reviewed research has shown to contribute to dysbiosis and other chronic disease states. The Dysbiosis Index (DI) is a calculation with scores from 1 to 5 based on the overall bacterial abundance and profile within the patient’s sample as compared to a reference population. Values above 2 indicate a microbiota profile that differs from the defined normobiotic reference population (i.e., dysbiosis). The higher the DI above 2, the more the sample is considered to deviate from normobiosis.
Method
PCR
Result Included
- Acinetobacter junii
- Actinobacteria
- Actinomycetales
- Akkermansia muciniphila
- Alistipes onderdonkii
- Alistipes spp.
- Bacilli Class
- Bacilli Class
- Bacteroides fragilis
- Bacteroides pectinophilus
- Bacteroides spp.
- Bacteroides spp. & Prevotella spp.
- Bacteroides stercoris
- Bacteroides zoogleoformans
- Bifidobacterium spp.
- Catenibacterium mitsuokai
- Clostridia Class
- Clostridium L2-50
- Clostridium methylpentosum
- Coprobacillus cateniformis
- Dialister invisus
- Dialister invisus & Megasphaera micronuciformis
- Dorea spp.
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Escherichia spp.
- Eubacterium biforme
- Eubacterium hallii
- Eubacterium rectale
- Eubacterium siraeum
- Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
- Firmicutes
- Lachnospiraceae
- Lactobacillus ruminis & Pediococcus acidilactici
- Lactobacillus spp.
- Mycoplasma hominis
- Parabacteroides johnsonii
- Parabacteroides spp.
- Phascolarctobacterium spp.
- Proteobacteria
- Ruminococcus albus & R. bromii
- Ruminococcus gnavus
- Streptococcus agalactiae & Eubacterium rectale
- Streptococcus salivarius ssp.thermophilus
- Streptococcus salivarius ssp.thermophilus & S. sanguinis
- Streptococcus spp.
- Veillonella spp.
- Vibrio cholerae
Test Location
Doctor's Data
Specimen
Specimen Type
StoolVolume
Sample Volume
5 mL
Collection & Handling
Additional Information
A specimen collection kit is available. To order a kit online, please register or login. For assistance or more information, please click here to send us an email or call 416-422-3000 x 300.
For additional information refer to the Doctor’s Data Website GI 360 Microbiome
Sample Report
Turnaround Time
8 days
Sample Report
Sample Report at external website.
Test Version
Last Updated
2022-05-09