Dysbiosis of gut microbiota in patients with severe COVID-19

© 2024 The Authors. Acute Medicine & Surgery published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Japanese Association for Acute Medicine..

Aim: Altered gut microbiota has been proposed as one of the causes of exacerbation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19) from the perspective of the gut-lung axis. We aimed to evaluate gut microbiota in mechanically ventilated patients with COVID-19 prior to using antibiotics.

Methods: We retrospectively selected for enrollment COVID-19 patients who required mechanical ventilation on admission but who had not used antibiotics before admission to observe the influence of SARS-Cov-2 on gut microbiota. Fecal samples were collected serially on admission and were evaluated by 16S rRNA gene deep sequencing.

Results: The phylum of Bacteroidetes decreased, and those of Firmicutes and Actinobacteria increased in COVID-19 patients compared with those in healthy controls (p < 0.001). The main commensals of Bacteroides, Faecalibacterium, and Blautia at the genus level were significantly decreased in the COVID-19 patients, and opportunistic bacteria including Corynebacterium, Anaerococcus, Finegoldia Peptoniphilus, Actinomyces, and Enterococcus were increased (p < 0.001). α-Diversity and β-diversity in COVID-19 patients significantly changed compared with those in the healthy controls.

Conclusion: The commensal gut microbiota were altered, and opportunistic bacteria increased in patients with severe COVID-19 who required mechanical ventilation on admission.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Acute medicine & surgery - 11(2024), 1 vom: 04. Jan., Seite e923

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shimizu, Kentaro [VerfasserIn]
Hirata, Haruhiko [VerfasserIn]
Tokuhira, Natsuko [VerfasserIn]
Motooka, Daisuke [VerfasserIn]
Nakamura, Shota [VerfasserIn]
Ueda, Akiko [VerfasserIn]
Tachino, Jotaro [VerfasserIn]
Koide, Moe [VerfasserIn]
Uchiyama, Akinori [VerfasserIn]
Ogura, Hiroshi [VerfasserIn]
Oda, Jun [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

COVID‐19
Dysbiosis
Gut
ICU
Journal Article
Microbiota

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Date Revised 13.01.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/ams2.923

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM36704269X