Structural and compositional segregation of the gut microbiota in HCV and liver cirrhotic patients: A clinical pilot study.

Structural and compositional segregation of the gut microbiota in HCV and liver cirrhotic patients: A clinical pilot study.

Ullah, Naeem;Kakakhel, Mian Adnan;Khan, Israr;Gul Hilal, Mian;Lajia, Zha;Bai, Yanrui;Sajjad, Wasim;Yuxi, Li;Ullah, Habib;Almohaimeed, Hailah M;Al-Sarraj, Faisal;Assiri, Rasha;Aggad, Waheeb S;Alharbi, Nada Abdullah;Alshehri, Areej Mohammed;Liu, Guanlan;Sun, Hui;Zhang, Chunjiang;
Microbial pathogenesis 2022 Vol. 171 pp. 105739
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ullah2022structuralmicrobial

Abstract

Gut microbial dysbiosis during the development of Hepatitis C virus and liver-related diseases is not well studied. Nowadays, HCV and liver cirrhosis are the major concerns that cause gut bacterial alteration, which leads to dysbiosis. For this purpose, the present study was aimed at correlating the gut bacterial community of the control group in comparison to HCV and liver cirrhotic patients. A total of 23 stool samples were collected, including control (9), liver cirrhotic (8), and HCV (6). The collected samples were subjected to 16 S rRNA Illumina gene sequencing. In comparison with control, a significant gut bacterial alteration was observed in the progression of HCV and liver cirrhosis. Overall, Firmicutes were significantly abundant in the whole study. No significant difference was observed in the alpha diversity of the control and patient studies. Additionally, the beta diversity based on non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) has a significant difference (p = 0.005) (ANOSIM R = 0.14) in all groups. The discriminative results based on the LEfSe tool revealed that the HCV-infected patients had higher Enterobacteriaceae and Enterobacterial, as well as Lactobacillus and Bacilli in comparison than the liver-cirrhotic patients. These taxa were significantly different from the control group (p < 0.05). Regarding prospects, a detailed analysis of the function through metagenomics and transcriptomics is needed.

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