Different host factors are associated with patterns in bacterial and fungal gut microbiota in Slovenian healthy cohort.

ABSTRACT: Gut microbiota in a healthy population is shaped by various geographic, demographic and lifestyle factors. Although the majority of research remains focused on the bacterial community, recent efforts to include the remaining microbial members like viruses, archaea and especially fungi revealed various functions they perform in the gut. Using the amplicon sequencing approach we analysed bacterial and fungal gut communities in a Slovenian cohort of 186 healthy volunteers. In the bacterial microbiome we detected 253 different genera. A core microbiome analysis revealed high consistency with previous studies, most prominently showing that genera Faecalibacterium, Bacteroides and Roseburia regularly comprise the core community. We detected a total of 195 fungal genera, but the majority of these

SUBMITTER: Mahnic A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6301613 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature