Temporal Stability in Chronic Wound Microbiota Is Associated With Poor Healing

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• 作者：Michael Loesche¹ ; ⁸ ; Sue E. Gardner² ; ⁸ ; ^{sue-gardner@uiowa.edu} ; Lindsay Kalan¹ ; Joseph Horwinski¹ ; Qi Zheng¹ ; Brendan P. Hodkinson¹ ; Amanda S. Tyldsley¹ ; Carrie L. Franciscus³ ; Stephen L. Hillis⁴ ; Samir Mehta⁵ ; David J. Margolis¹ ; ⁶ ; Elizabeth A. Grice¹ ; ⁷ ; ^{egrice@upenn.edu}
• 关键词：CT ; community type ; DFU ; diabetic foot ulcer ; OTU ; operational taxonomic unit
• 刊名：Journal of Investigative Dermatology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：137
• 期：1
• 页码：237-244
• 全文大小：474 K
• 卷排序：137

文摘

Microbial burden of chronic wounds is believed to play an important role in impaired healing and the development of infection-related complications. However, clinical cultures have little predictive value of wound outcomes, and culture-independent studies have been limited by cross-sectional design and small cohort size. We systematically evaluated the temporal dynamics of the microbiota colonizing diabetic foot ulcers, a common and costly complication of diabetes, and its association with healing and clinical complications. Dirichlet multinomial mixture modeling, Markov chain analysis, and mixed-effect models were used to investigate shifts in the microbiota over time and their associations with healing. Here we show, to our knowledge, previously unreported temporal dynamics of the chronic wound microbiome. Microbiota community instability was associated with faster healing and improved outcomes. Diabetic foot ulcer microbiota were found to exist in one of four community types that experienced frequent and nonrandom transitions. Transition patterns and frequencies were associated with healing time. Exposure to systemic antibiotics destabilized the wound microbiota, rather than altering overall diversity or relative abundance of specific taxa. This study provides evidence that the dynamic wound microbiome is indicative of clinical outcomes and may be a valuable guide for personalized management and treatment of chronic wounds.