Composition of the gut microbiota in patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Saudi Arabia: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Conclusions

The results of this study provide an overview of the variations in microbiota diversity present in Saudi IBD patients compared to healthy controls.

Results

The key finding was three negative bacterial biomarkers, Paraprevotellaceae, the Muribaculaceae families of Bacteroidetes phylum, and the Leuconostocaceae family of Firmicutes phylum, which had a higher relative abundance in healthy individuals compared to IBD patients. It was also found that primary microbiota signatures at certain genera and species levels, including Prevotella copri, Bifidobacterium adolescentis, Ruminococcus callidus, Coprococcus sp., Ruminococcus gnavus, Dorea formicigenerans, Leuconostoc, Dialister, Catenibacterium, Eubacterium biforme, and Lactobacillus mucosae, were absent in almost al

SUBMITTER: Al-Amrah H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10270479 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature