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Exploring the long-term colonisation and persistence of probiotic-prophylaxis species on the gut microbiome of preterm infants: a pilot study

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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS
卷 181, 期 9, 页码 3389-3400

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DOI: 10.1007/s00431-022-04548-y

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Preterm infant; Neonatal; Microbiome; Probiotics; NICU & metagenomics

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  1. Study, Education and Research Trust Account (SERTA) research grant (Townsville Hospital and Health Service)
  2. CAUL

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Probiotic prophylaxis can reduce the risk of acute diseases in preterm infants by modulating the gut microbiome. However, the effects of probiotic species and modulation do not seem to persist beyond discharge.
Preterm infants suffer from a higher incidence of acute diseases such as necrotising enterocolitis and sepsis. This risk can be mitigated through probiotic prophylaxis during admission. This reduction in risk is likely the result of acute modulation of the gut microbiome induced by probiotic species, which has been observed to occur up until discharge. We aimed to determine if this modulation, and the associated probiotic species, persisted beyond discharge. We conducted both a cross-sectional analysis (n= 18), at similar to 18 months of age, and a longitudinal analysis (n= 6), from admission to 18 months of the gut microbiome of preterm infants using both shotgun metagenomics and 16S rRNA profiling respectively. The 16S amplicon sequencing revealed that the microbial composition of the probiotic-supplemented infants changed dramatically over time, stabilising at discharge. However, species from the probiotic Infloran (R), as well as positive modulatory effects previously associated with supplementation, do not appear to persist beyond discharge and once prophylaxis has stopped. Conclusions: Although differences exist between supplemented and non-supplemented groups, the implications of these differences remain unclear. Additionally, despite a lack of long-term colonisation, the presence of probiotics during early neonatal life may still have modulatory effects on the microbiome assembly and immune system training.

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