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Sugar-rich foods exacerbate antibiotic-induced microbiome injury

Dai, A.; Adintori, P. A.; Funnell, T.; Jogia, W. P.; Fei, T.; Waters, N. R.; Rangesa, M.; Ballweg, A.; Gipson, B.; Raj, S.; Hayase, E.; Markey, K. A.; Burgos da Silva, M.; Miltiadous, O.; Brambilla, C. Z.; Buchan, M. L.; Peets, T.; Gradissimo, A.; Smith, N.; Katsamakis, Z.; Warren, A.; Amoretti, L. A.; Duan, C.; Zhang, C.; Matheis, F.; Sullivan, A. P.; Slingerland, J. B.; Clurman, A.; Brereton, D. G.; Giardina, P. A.; Gomes, A. L. C.; Johnson, A. J.; Knights, D.; Jenq, R. R.; Perales, M.-A.; Giralt, S. A.; Schluter, J.; van den Brink, M. R. M.; Peled, J.

2024-10-17 microbiology
10.1101/2024.10.14.617881 bioRxiv
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Intestinal microbiota composition is implicated in several diseases; understanding the factors that influence it are key to elucidating host-commensal interactions and to designing microbiome-targeted therapies. We quantified how diet influences microbiome dynamics in hospitalized patients. We recorded 9,419 meals consumed by 173 patients undergoing hematopoietic cell transplantation and profiled the microbiome in 1,009 longitudinally collected stool samples from 158 of them. Caloric intake was correlated with fecal microbiota diversity. Bayesian inference revealed associations between intake of sweets or sugars during antibiotic exposure with microbiome disruption, as assessed by low diversity or expansion of the pathobiont Enterococcus. We validated this observation experimentally, finding that sucrose exacerbated antibiotic-induced Enterococcus expansion in mice. Taken together, our results suggest that avoiding sugar-rich foods during antibiotic treatment may reduce microbiome injury. One Sentence SummaryAnalyses of hematopoietic cell transplant patients and of mice uncover links between foods and microbiome disruption.

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