Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Gut microbiome dysbiosis in antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients is associated with microbial translocation and bacteremia

  • Lucie Bernard-Raichon,
  • Mericien Venzon,
  • Jon Klein,
  • Jordan E. Axelrad,
  • Chenzhen Zhang,
  • Alexis P. Sullivan,
  • Grant A. Hussey,
  • Arnau Casanovas-Massana,
  • Maria G. Noval,
  • Ana M. Valero-Jimenez,
  • Juan Gago,
  • Gregory Putzel,
  • Alejandro Pironti,
  • Evan Wilder,
  • Yale IMPACT Research Team,
  • Lorna E. Thorpe,
  • Dan R. Littman,
  • Meike Dittmann,
  • Kenneth A. Stapleford,
  • Bo Shopsin,
  • Victor J. Torres,
  • Albert I. Ko,
  • Akiko Iwasaki,
  • Ken Cadwell,
  • Jonas Schluter

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33395-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Here, the authors show that SARS-CoV-2 infection causes gut microbiome dysbiosis and gut epithelial cell alterations in a mouse model, and correlate dysbiosis observed in COVID-19 patients with blood stream infections, matching reads of bacterial sequences from stool samples to organisms found in the blood.