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An integrative understanding of the large metabolic shifts induced by antibiotics in critical illness

Antibiotics are commonly used in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); however, several studies showed that the impact of antibiotics to prevent infection, multi-organ failure, and death in the ICU is less clear than their benefit on course of infection in the absence of organ dysfunction. We characterized...

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Published in:Gut microbes 2021-01, Vol.13 (1), p.1993598-1993598
Main Authors: Marfil-Sánchez, Andrea, Zhang, Lu, Alonso-Pernas, Pol, Mirhakkak, Mohammad, Mueller, Melinda, Seelbinder, Bastian, Ni, Yueqiong, Santhanam, Rakesh, Busch, Anne, Beemelmanns, Christine, Ermolaeva, Maria, Bauer, Michael, Panagiotou, Gianni
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Summary:Antibiotics are commonly used in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU); however, several studies showed that the impact of antibiotics to prevent infection, multi-organ failure, and death in the ICU is less clear than their benefit on course of infection in the absence of organ dysfunction. We characterized here the compositional and metabolic changes of the gut microbiome induced by critical illness and antibiotics in a cohort of 75 individuals in conjunction with 2,180 gut microbiome samples representing 16 different diseases. We revealed an "infection-vulnerable" gut microbiome environment present only in critically ill treated with antibiotics (ICU + ). Feeding of Caenorhabditis elegans with Bifidobacterium animalis and Lactobacillus crispatus, species that expanded in ICU + patients, revealed a significant negative impact of these microbes on host viability and developmental homeostasis. These results suggest that antibiotic administration can dramatically impact essential functional activities in the gut related to immune responses more than critical illness itself, which might explain in part untoward effects of antibiotics in the critically ill.
ISSN:1949-0976
1949-0984
DOI:10.1080/19490976.2021.1993598