Kenny de Meirleir

Kenny de Meirleir is a professor of physiology and internal medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Belgium.^[1]

He researches chronic fatigue syndrome and has created two tests:

• a breath test^[2] to diagnose overgrowth of bacteria in the gut.
• a urine test^[3] to detect high levels of hydrogen sulfide. The test is related to the diagnosis and treatment of ME/CFS.

He is among the authors of numerous published scientific articles and studies, a search on "De Meirleir K[Author]" at PubMed yields 85 results (as of 2010-10-02), most of which are related to ME/CFS.

References

1. ^ Vrije Universiteit Brussel page for Kenny de Meirleir
2. ^ Breath test to test for bactera overgrowth
3. ^ Press conference presenting the Neurotoxic Metabolite Test

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