Infant gut microbiota and food sensitization: associations in the first year of life

Study information

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study design

case-control

Citation

PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.

25599982

DOI Digital object identifier for electronic documents.

10.1111/cea.12487

URI

Authors

Azad MB, Konya T, Guttman DS, Field CJ, Sears MR, HayGlass KT, Mandhane PJ, Turvey SE, Subbarao P, Becker AB, Scott JA, Kozyrskyj AL

Journal

Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology

Year

2015

BACKGROUND: The gut microbiota is established during infancy and plays a fundamental role in shaping host immunity. Colonization patterns may influence the development of atopic disease, but existing evidence is limited and conflicting. OBJECTIVE: To explore associations of infant gut microbiota and food sensitization. METHODS: Food sensitization at 1 year was determined by skin prick testing in 166 infants from the population-based Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) study. Faecal samples were collected at 3 and 12 months, and microbiota was characterized by Illumina 16S rRNA sequencing. RESULTS: Twelve infants (7.2%) were sensitized to ≥ 1 common food allergen at 1 year. Enterobacteriaceae were overrepresented and Bacteroidaceae were underrepresented in the gut microbiota of food-sensitized infants at 3 months and 1 year, whereas lower microbiota richness was evident only at 3 months. Each quartile increase in richness at 3 months was associated with a 55% reduction in risk for food sensitization by 1 year (adjusted odds ratio 0.45, 95% confidence interval 0.23-0.87). Independently, each quartile increase in Enterobacteriaceae/Bacteroidaceae ratio was associated with a twofold increase in risk (2.02, 1.07-3.80). These associations were upheld in a sensitivity analysis among infants who were vaginally delivered, exclusively breastfed and unexposed to antibiotics. At 1 year, the Enterobacteriaceae/Bacteroidaceae ratio remained elevated among sensitized infants, who also tended to have decreased abundance of Ruminococcaceae. CONCLUSIONS AND CLINICAL RELEVANCE: Low gut microbiota richness and an elevated Enterobacteriaceae/Bacteroidaceae ratio in early infancy are associated with subsequent food sensitization, suggesting that early gut colonization may contribute to the development of atopic disease, including food allergy.

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Subjects

Location of subjects: Canada

Host species Species from which microbiome was sampled. Contact us to have more species added.: Homo sapiens

Body site Anatomical site where microbial samples were extracted from according to the Uber Anatomy Ontology: Feces Cow dung,Cow pat,Droppings,Dung,Excrement,Excreta,Faeces,Fecal material,Fecal matter,Fewmet,Frass,Guano,Matières fécales@fr,Merde@fr,Ordure,Partie de la merde@fr,Piece of shit,Porción de mierda@es,Portion of dung,Portion of excrement,Portion of faeces,Portion of fecal material,Portion of fecal matter,Portion of feces,Portion of guano,Portion of scat,Portionem cacas,Scat,Spoor,Spraint,Stool,Teil der fäkalien@de,Feces,feces

Condition The experimental condition / phenotype studied according to the Experimental Factor Ontology: Food allergy Food Hypersensitivity,Food intolerance,Food allergy,food allergy

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies: non-sensitized group

Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies: sensitized group

Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group: 3 months infants with food sensitization at 1 year

Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group: 154

Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group: 12

Lab analysis

Sequencing type: 16S

16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene: V4

Sequencing platform Manufacturer and experimental platform used for quantifying microbial abundance: Illumina

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).: relative abundances

Statistical test: Kruskall-Wallis

Significance threshold p-value or FDR threshold used for differential abundance testing (if any): 0.05

MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?: Yes

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness: unchanged

Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness: decreased

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Source: Table 3

Description: Relative abundance of dominant phyla in fecal microbiota of sensitized infants VS non-sensitized infants at 3 months according to food sensitization at 1 year

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in sensitized group

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Enterobacteriaceae
Pseudomonadota

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Subjects

Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group: 1 year infants with food sensitization at 1 year

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Alpha Diversity

Shannon Estimator of species richness and species evenness: more weight on species richness: unchanged

Chao1 Abundance-based estimator of species richness: unchanged

Signature 1

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Source: Table 3

Description: Relative abundance of dominant phyla in fecal microbiota of sensitized infants VS non-sensitized infants at 1 year according to food sensitization at 1 year

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in sensitized group

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Enterobacteriaceae

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Source: Table 3

Description: Relative abundance of dominant phyla in fecal microbiota of sensitized infants VS non-sensitized infants at 1 year according to food sensitization at 1 year

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in sensitized group

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Bacteroidota
Bacteroidaceae

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