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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
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DOI: 10.1007/s00431-023-05257-w
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Very low birth weight infants; Intestinal; Fungi
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Intestinal fungi play a crucial role in the intestinal microecology and immunity development of preterm infants. This study reveals that the composition and dynamics of gut fungi in very low birth weight infants undergo significant changes during the first 2 months of life, potentially affecting their intestinal metabolic function.
It has been found that intestinal fungi play a role in the composition of the intestinal microecology and in the formation and development of the immunity during childhood. We investigated the gut fungi composition of preterm infants to analysis composition and dynamics of intestinal fungi during the postnatal 2 months of very low birth weight infants. We collected feces from 34 very low birth weight infants (VLBWI) and 28 preterm infants with birth weight >1500 g. We extracted total fungal DNA from feces and analyzed the composition of gut fungus through ITS sequencing. The fungal detectable rate in the experimental group peaked on day 3 (85.19%), then gradually decreased and started to show an increasing trend again by day 28. There were significant differences in the alpha diversity of intestinal fungus between VLBWI and controls, and the VLBWI had its own characteristics at different time points in richness and diversity. A total of 10 phylums and 342 genera were identified in all VLBWI samples. The dominant fungal phylum of the VLBWI group is Ascomycota (50.3%)and Basidiomycota (48.8%). The functional metabolic activity of the experimental group was lower than that of the control group.Conclusion: The composition and abundance of VLBWI intestinal fungal showed several alterations during the first 2 months of life. The prediction of gut microbiota function suggests that intestinal metabolic function may be altered in VLBWI.
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