Butyrate-producing gut bacteria and viral infections in kidney transplant recipients: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The gut microbiome is being associated increasingly with development of infections besides Clostridium difficile infection. A recent study found an association between butyrate-producing gut (BPG) bacteria and less frequent development of lower respiratory viral infections in allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients (Haak et al, Blood 131(26): 2978, 2018). In this investigation, we examine the relationship between the abundance of BPG bacteria and the development of viral infections in a cohort of kidney transplant recipients.

Methods

We recruited 168 kidney transplant recipients who provided 510 fecal specimens in the first 3 months after transplantation and profiled the gut microbiota using 16S rRNA gene sequencing of the V4-V5 hypervariable regi

SUBMITTER: Lee JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6917841 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature