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ArticleScientific reports2018

Oropharyngeal microbiome evaluation highlights Neisseria abundance in active celiac patients.

Laura Iaffaldano, Ilaria Granata, Chiara Pagliuca, Maria Valeria Esposito, Giorgio Casaburi, Giuliana Salerno, Roberta Colicchio, Marina Piccirillo, Carolina Ciacci, Giovanna Del Vecchio Blanco and 5 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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32citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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3 · Its place in the literature

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 47 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 7 institutions in 2 countries.

Laura IaffaldanoCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.
Ilaria GranataCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.
Chiara PagliucaCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.
Maria Valeria EspositoCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.
Giorgio CasaburiDepartment of Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Space Life Science Lab, Merritt Island, FL, USA.
Giuliana SalernoDepartment of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Roberta ColicchioDepartment of Molecular Medicine and Medical Biotechnologies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
Marina PiccirilloLabGTP (Laboratory of Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics), Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy.
Carolina CiacciDepartment of Medicine and Surgery, University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7426-1145
Giovanna Del Vecchio BlancoDepartment of System Medicine, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
Mario Rosario GuarracinoLabGTP (Laboratory of Genomics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics), Institute for High Performance Computing and Networking (ICAR), National Research Council (CNR), Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2870-8134
Paola SalvatoreCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.
Francesco SalvatoreCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-2346-3564
Valeria D'ArgenioCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy. dargenio@ceinge.unina.it.ORCID 0000-0001-9273-3698
Lucia SacchettiCeinge Biotecnologie Avanzate scarl, Naples, Italy. sacchett@unina.it.
Ceinge Biotecnologie Avanzate (Italy) · ITInstitute for High Performance Computing and Networking · ITUniversity of Naples Federico II · ITKennedy Space Center · USUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · ITUniversity of Rome Tor Vergata · ITUniversity of Salerno · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We previously profiled duodenal microbiome in active (a-), gluten-free diet (GFD) celiac disease (CD) patients and controls finding higher levels of the Proteobacterium Neisseria flavescens in a-CD patients than in the other two groups. Here, we investigate the oropharyngeal microbiome in CD patients and controls to evaluate whether this niche share microbial composition with the duodenum. We characterized by 16S rRNA gene sequencing the oropharyngeal microbiome in 14 a-CD, 22 GFD patients and 20 controls. Bacteroidetes, Proteobacteria and Firmicutes differed significantly between the three groups. In particular, Proteobacteria abounded in a-CD and Neisseria species mostly accounted for this abundance (p < 0.001), whereas Bacteroidetes were more present in control and GFD microbiomes. Culture-based oropharyngeal microbiota analysis confirmed the greater abundance of Proteobacteria and of Neisseria species in a-CD. Microbial functions prediction indicated a greater metabolic potential for degradation of aminoacids, lipids and ketone bodies in a-CD microbiome than in control and GFD microbiomes, in which polysaccharide metabolism predominated. Our results suggest a continuum of a-CD microbial composition from mouth to duodenum. We may speculate that microbiome characterization in the oropharynx, which is a less invasive sampling than the duodenum, could contribute to investigate the role of dysbiosis in CD pathogenesis.

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Celiac DiseaseComputational BiologyFemaleHumansMaleMicrobiotaNeisseriaOropharynxRNA, Ribosomal, 16SRNA, Ribosomal, 16S

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PMID30038321
PMCPMC6056421
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