ArticleNature communications2024
Gut microbiota patterns associated with duration of diarrhea in children under five years of age in Ethiopia.
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- The effect of probiotics on the diarrhea and constipation outcomes in children: an umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Microbiome responses to anthelmintic treatment depend on pre-treatment helminth infection status in young Ethiopian children.Communications medicine · 2026Article
- Identification of antimicrobial peptides from ancient gut microbiomes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Using metagenomics and whole-genome sequencing to characterize enteric pathogens across various sources in Africa.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Diversity and Functional Predictions of Gut Microbiota in Vietnamese Children Aged 6-24 Months with Persistent Diarrhea of Unknown Etiology.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Beyond the gut: decoding the gut-immune-brain axis in health and disease.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2025Review
- Knowledge and Acceptability of Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Among Patients, Caregivers, and Health Care Providers in Ethiopia.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Metagenomic Analysis of the Gastrointestinal Phageome and Incorporated Dysbiosis in Children with Persistent Diarrhea of Unknown Etiology in Vietnam.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- A Mechanistic Approach to Replacing Antibiotics with Natural Products in the Treatment of Bacterial Diarrhea.Biomolecules · 2025Review
- Modified Renshen Wumei Decoction Improves Qi-Yin Deficiency Diarrhea by Regulating the Gut Microbiotas and Metabolites in Rats.Journal of microbiology and biotechnology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Diarrhea claims >500,000 lives annually among children under five years of age in low- and middle-income countries. Mortality due to acute diarrhea (<7 days' duration) is decreasing, but prolonged (7-13 days) and persistent (≥14 days of duration) diarrhea remains a massive challenge. Here, we use a case-control study to decipher if fecal gut microbiota compositional differences between Ethiopian children with acute (n=554) or prolonged/persistent (n=95) diarrhea and frequency-matched non-diarrheal controls (n=663) are linked to diarrheal etiology. We show that diarrhea cases are associated with lower bacterial diversity and enriched in Escherichia spp., Campylobacter spp., and Streptococcus spp. Further, diarrhea cases are depleted in gut commensals such as Prevotella copri, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, and Dialister succinatiphilus, with depletion being most pronounced in prolonged/persistent cases, suggesting that prolonged duration of diarrhea is accompanied by depletion of gut commensals and that re-establishing these via e.g., microbiota-directed food supplements offer a potential treatment strategy.
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