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Gut microbiota signatures in Schistosoma japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis patients: a case-control study

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INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF POVERTY
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -

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BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s40249-021-00821-8

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Gut microbiota; 16S rRNA; Schistosoma japonicum

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2018YFC2000500, 2018YFC2000301]
  2. Key Disciplines Construction Plan of the Zhejiang Province for Traditional Chinese Medicine [2017-XK-A31]
  3. Chinese Medicine Research Program of the Zhejiang Province [2020ZB148]

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The study found that the gut microbiota of S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis patients is similar to that of healthy individuals, indicating that bacterial taxa cannot be used as non-invasive biomarkers for S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis.
Background: Several studies have assessed the role of gut microbiota in various cirrhosis etiologies, however, none has done so in the context of Schistosoma japonicum infection in humans. We, therefore, sought to determine whether gut microbiota is associated with S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis. Methods: From December 2017 to November 2019, 24 patients with S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis, as well as 25 age- and sex-matched controls from the Zhejiang Province, China, were enrolled. Fecal samples were collected and used for 16S rRNA gene sequencing (particularly, the hypervariable V4 region) using the Illumina MiSeq system. Wilcoxon Rank-Sum and PERMANOVA tests were used for analysis. Results: Eight hundred and seven operational taxonomic units (OTUs) were detected, of which, 491 were common between the two groups, whereas 123 and 193 were unique to the control and cirrhosis groups, respectively. Observed species, Chao, ACE, Shannon, Simpson, and Good's coverage indexes, used for alpha diversity analysis, showed values of 173.4 +/- 63.8, 197.7 +/- 73.0, 196.3 +/- 68.9, 2.96 +/- 0.57, 0.13 +/- 0.09, and 1.00 +/- 0.00, respectively, in the control group and 154.0 +/- 68.1, 178.6 +/- 75.1, 179.9 +/- 72.4, 2.68 +/- 0.76, 0.19 +/- 0.18, and 1.00 +/- 0.00, respectively, in the cirrhosis group, with no significant differences observed between the groups. Beta diversity was evaluated by weighted UniFrac distances, with values of 0.40 +/- 0.13 and 0.40 +/- 0.11 in the control and cirrhosis groups, respectively (P> 0.05). PCA data also confirmed this similarity (P> 0.05). Meanwhile, the relative abundance of species belonging to the Bacilli class was higher in cirrhosis patients [median: 2.74%, interquartile range (IQR): 0.18-7.81%] than healthy individuals (median: 0.15%, IQR: 0.47-0.73%; P < 0.01), and that of Lactobacillales order was also higher in cirrhosis patients (median: 2.73%, IQR: 0.16-7.80%) than in healthy individuals (median: 0.12%, IQR: 0.03-0.70%; P < 0.05). Conclusions: Cumulatively, our results suggest that the gut microbiota of S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis patients is similar to that of healthy individuals, indicating that bacterial taxa cannot be used as non-invasive biomarkers for S. japonicum infection-induced liver cirrhosis.

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