Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans

ABSTRACT Disability after childhood diarrhea is an important burden on global productivity. Recent studies suggest that gut bacterial communities influence how humans recover from infectious diarrhea, but we still lack extensive data and mechanistic hypotheses for how these bacterial communities res...

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Autores principales: Lawrence A. David, Ana Weil, Edward T. Ryan, Stephen B. Calderwood, Jason B. Harris, Fahima Chowdhury, Yasmin Begum, Firdausi Qadri, Regina C. LaRocque, Peter J. Turnbaugh
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:8df31ab956044052ba461764ca213e142021-11-15T15:49:02ZGut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans10.1128/mBio.00381-152150-7511https://doaj.org/article/8df31ab956044052ba461764ca213e142015-07-01T00:00:00Zhttps://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mBio.00381-15https://doaj.org/toc/2150-7511ABSTRACT Disability after childhood diarrhea is an important burden on global productivity. Recent studies suggest that gut bacterial communities influence how humans recover from infectious diarrhea, but we still lack extensive data and mechanistic hypotheses for how these bacterial communities respond to diarrheal disease and its treatment. Here, we report that after Vibrio cholerae infection, the human gut microbiota undergoes an orderly and reproducible succession that features transient reversals in relative levels of enteric Bacteroides and Prevotella. Elements of this succession may be a common feature in microbiota recovery from acute secretory diarrhea, as we observed similar successional dynamics after enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection. Our metagenomic analyses suggest that multiple mechanisms drive microbial succession after cholera, including bacterial dispersal properties, changing enteric oxygen and carbohydrate levels, and phage dynamics. Thus, gut microbiota recovery after cholera may be predictable at the level of community structure but is driven by a complex set of temporally varying ecological processes. Our findings suggest opportunities for diagnostics and therapies targeting the gut microbiota in humans recovering from infectious diarrhea. IMPORTANCE Disability after diarrhea is a major burden on public health in the developing world. Gut bacteria may affect this recovery, but it remains incompletely understood how resident microbes in the digestive tract respond to diarrheal illness. Here, we observed an orderly and reproducible succession of gut bacterial groups after cholera in humans. Genomic analyses associated the succession with bacterial dispersal in food, an altered microbial environment, and changing phage levels. Our findings suggest that it may one day be feasible to manage resident bacterial populations in the gut after infectious diarrhea.Lawrence A. DavidAna WeilEdward T. RyanStephen B. CalderwoodJason B. HarrisFahima ChowdhuryYasmin BegumFirdausi QadriRegina C. LaRocquePeter J. TurnbaughAmerican Society for MicrobiologyarticleMicrobiologyQR1-502ENmBio, Vol 6, Iss 3 (2015)
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Lawrence A. David
Ana Weil
Edward T. Ryan
Stephen B. Calderwood
Jason B. Harris
Fahima Chowdhury
Yasmin Begum
Firdausi Qadri
Regina C. LaRocque
Peter J. Turnbaugh
Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
description ABSTRACT Disability after childhood diarrhea is an important burden on global productivity. Recent studies suggest that gut bacterial communities influence how humans recover from infectious diarrhea, but we still lack extensive data and mechanistic hypotheses for how these bacterial communities respond to diarrheal disease and its treatment. Here, we report that after Vibrio cholerae infection, the human gut microbiota undergoes an orderly and reproducible succession that features transient reversals in relative levels of enteric Bacteroides and Prevotella. Elements of this succession may be a common feature in microbiota recovery from acute secretory diarrhea, as we observed similar successional dynamics after enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infection. Our metagenomic analyses suggest that multiple mechanisms drive microbial succession after cholera, including bacterial dispersal properties, changing enteric oxygen and carbohydrate levels, and phage dynamics. Thus, gut microbiota recovery after cholera may be predictable at the level of community structure but is driven by a complex set of temporally varying ecological processes. Our findings suggest opportunities for diagnostics and therapies targeting the gut microbiota in humans recovering from infectious diarrhea. IMPORTANCE Disability after diarrhea is a major burden on public health in the developing world. Gut bacteria may affect this recovery, but it remains incompletely understood how resident microbes in the digestive tract respond to diarrheal illness. Here, we observed an orderly and reproducible succession of gut bacterial groups after cholera in humans. Genomic analyses associated the succession with bacterial dispersal in food, an altered microbial environment, and changing phage levels. Our findings suggest that it may one day be feasible to manage resident bacterial populations in the gut after infectious diarrhea.
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author Lawrence A. David
Ana Weil
Edward T. Ryan
Stephen B. Calderwood
Jason B. Harris
Fahima Chowdhury
Yasmin Begum
Firdausi Qadri
Regina C. LaRocque
Peter J. Turnbaugh
author_facet Lawrence A. David
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Edward T. Ryan
Stephen B. Calderwood
Jason B. Harris
Fahima Chowdhury
Yasmin Begum
Firdausi Qadri
Regina C. LaRocque
Peter J. Turnbaugh
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title Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
title_short Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
title_full Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
title_fullStr Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
title_full_unstemmed Gut Microbial Succession Follows Acute Secretory Diarrhea in Humans
title_sort gut microbial succession follows acute secretory diarrhea in humans
publisher American Society for Microbiology
publishDate 2015
url https://doaj.org/article/8df31ab956044052ba461764ca213e14
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