Low diversity of the gut microbiota in infants with atopic eczema

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• 作者：Thomas R. Abrahamsson ; MD ; PhD^a ; ^{thomas.abrahamsson@lio.se} ; Hedvig E. Jakobsson ; MSc^b ; ^c ; Anders F. Andersson ; PhD^d ; Bengt Bjö ; rkst&eacute ; n ; MD ; PhD^e ; Lars Engstrand ; MD ; PhD^b ; ^c ; Maria C. Jenmalm ; PhD^a ; ^f
• 关键词：Allergic disease ; Bacteroides species ; diversity ; eczema ; hygiene hypothesis ; infant ; microbiota ; molecular microbiology ; pyrosequencing ; Sutterella species
• 刊名：Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• 出版年：2012
• 出版时间：February, 2012
• 年：2012
• 卷：129
• 期：2
• 页码：434-440.e2
• 全文大小：588 K

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Background

It is debated whether a low total diversity of the gut microbiota in early childhood is more important than an altered prevalence of particular bacterial species for the increasing incidence of allergic disease. The advent of powerful, cultivation-free molecular methods makes it possible to characterize the total microbiome down to the genus level in large cohorts.

Objective

We sought to assess microbial diversity and characterize the dominant bacteria in stool during the first year of life in relation to atopic eczema development.

Methods

Microbial diversity and composition were analyzed with barcoded 16S rDNA 454-pyrosequencing in stool samples at 1 week, 1 month, and 12 months of age in 20 infants with IgE-associated eczema and 20 infants without any allergic manifestation until 2 years of age ( ID ).

Results

Infants with IgE-associated eczema had a lower diversity of the total microbiota at 1 month (P?= .004) and a lower diversity of the bacterial phylum Bacteroidetes and the genus Bacteroides at 1 month (P?= .02 and P?= .01) and the phylum Proteobacteria at 12 months of age (P?= .02). The microbiota was less uniform at 1 month than at 12 months of age, with a high interindividual variability. At 12 months, when the microbiota had stabilized, Proteobacteria, comprising gram-negative organisms, were more abundant in infants without allergic manifestation (Empirical Analysis of Digital Gene Expression in R [edgeR] test: P?= .008, q?= 0.02).

Conclusion

Low intestinal microbial diversity during the first month of life was associated with subsequent atopic eczema.