ArticlePloS one2017
Infections by human gastrointestinal helminths are associated with changes in faecal microbiota diversity and composition.
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70 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Hidden Link Between Intestinal Helminthiasis, Gut Microbiome Alterations, and Colorectal Cancer Risk: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Pooled it
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- MICHELINdb: a web-based tool for mining of helminth-microbiota interaction datasets, and a meta-analysis of current research.Microbiome · 2020Pooled it
- Combined high-quality metagenomics reveals off-target effects of albendazole, ivermectin-albendazole and moxidectin-albendazole on the human gut bacteria.NPJ biofilms and microbiomes · 2026Trial
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- Two key Actinomycetota taxa in the human gut microbiota are associated with Schistosoma mansoni infection burden.Parasitology research · 2026Article
- The dual role of intestinal parasites in shaping human gut microbiota: distinguishing helminthic and protozoan dynamics.Gut pathogens · 2026Review
- Associations and interactions between prokaryotes and other gut biota in non-human primates.Primates; journal of primatology · 2026Review
- Breaking down barriers: is intestinal mucus degradation byInfection and immunity · 2025Review
- Helminths in alternative therapeutics of inflammatory bowel disease.Intestinal research · 2025Review
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- Structural and functional analyses of nematode-derived antimicrobial peptides support the occurrence of direct mechanisms of worm-microbiota interactions.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2024Article
- Gut-microbiome profiles among Soil-transmitted helminths (STHs) infected Ethiopian children enrolled in the school-based mass deworming program.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Interaction between Intestinal Parasites and the Gut Microbiota: Implications for the Intestinal Immune Response and Host Defence.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Effect of Soil Temperature on Canine Soil-Transmitted Nematodes in Kandy District with the First Record of Hookworm, Ancylostoma tubaeforme from Sri Lanka.Acta parasitologica · 2024Article
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- Amino acid availability acts as a metabolic rheostat to determine the magnitude of ILC2 responses.The Journal of experimental medicine · 2023Article
- Species interactions, stability, and resilience of the gut microbiota - Helminth assemblage in horses.iScience · 2023Article
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- Guts within guts: the microbiome of the intestinal helminth parasite Ascaris suum is derived but distinct from its host.Microbiome · 2022Article
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Abstract
Investigations of the impact that patent infections by soil-transmitted gastrointestinal nematode parasites exert on the composition of the host gut commensal flora are attracting growing interest by the scientific community. However, information collected to date varies across experiments, and further studies are needed to identify consistent relationships between parasites and commensal microbial species. Here, we explore the qualitative and quantitative differences between the microbial community profiles of cohorts of human volunteers from Sri Lanka with patent infection by one or more parasitic nematode species (H+), as well as that of uninfected subjects (H-) and of volunteers who had been subjected to regular prophylactic anthelmintic treatment (Ht). High-throughput sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA gene, followed by bioinformatics and biostatistical analyses of sequence data revealed no significant differences in alpha diversity (Shannon) and richness between groups (P = 0.65, P = 0.13 respectively); however, beta diversity was significantly increased in H+ and Ht when individually compared to H-volunteers (P = 0.04). Among others, bacteria of the families Verrucomicrobiaceae and Enterobacteriaceae showed a trend towards increased abundance in H+, whereas the Leuconostocaceae and Bacteroidaceae showed a relative increase in H- and Ht respectively. Our findings add valuable knowledge to the vast, and yet little explored, research field of parasite-microbiota interactions and will provide a basis for the elucidation of the role such interactions play in pathogenic and immune-modulatory properties of parasitic nematodes in both human and animal hosts.
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