Integrated gut virome and bacteriome dynamics in COVID-19 patients

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Citation
PMID PubMed identifier for scientific articles.
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Authors
Cao J, Wang C, Zhang Y, Lei G, Xu K, Zhao N, Lu J, Meng F, Yu L, Yan J, Bai C, Zhang S, Zhang N, Gong Y, Bi Y, Shi Y, Chen Z, Dai L, Wang J, Yang P
Journal
Gut microbes
Year
2021
Keywords:
COVID-19, bacteriome, dysbiosis, genetic mutation, virome
SARS-CoV-2 is the cause of the current global pandemic of COVID-19; this virus infects multiple organs, such as the lungs and gastrointestinal tract. The microbiome in these organs, including the bacteriome and virome, responds to infection and might also influence disease progression and treatment outcome. In a cohort of 13 COVID-19 patients in Beijing, China, we observed that the gut virome and bacteriome in the COVID-19 patients were notably different from those of five healthy controls. We identified a bacterial dysbiosis signature by observing reduced diversity and viral shifts in patients, and among the patients, the bacterial/viral compositions were different between patients of different severities, although these differences are not entirely distinguishable from the effect of antibiotics. Severe cases of COVID-19 exhibited a greater abundance of opportunistic pathogens but were depleted for butyrate-producing groups of bacteria compared with mild to moderate cases. We replicated our findings in a mouse COVID-19 model, confirmed virome differences and bacteriome dysbiosis due to SARS-CoV-2 infection, and observed that immune/infection-related genes were differentially expressed in gut epithelial cells during infection, possibly explaining the virome and bacteriome dynamics. Our results suggest that the components of the microbiome, including the bacteriome and virome, are affected by SARS-CoV-2 infections, while their compositional signatures could reflect or even contribute to disease severity and recovery processes.

Experiment 1


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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks, Peace Sandy

Subjects

Location of subjects
China
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
COVID-19 2019 novel coronavirus,2019 novel coronavirus infection,2019-nCoV,2019-nCoV infection,beta-CoV,beta-CoVs,betacoronavirus,coronavirus disease 2019,SARS-coronavirus 2,SARS-CoV-2,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2,severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infectious disease,β-coronavirus,β-CoV,β-CoVs,COVID-19,cOVID-19
Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Healthy controls
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
COVID-19 patients
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with COVID-19
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
5
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
13

Lab analysis

Sequencing type
WMS
16S variable region One or more hypervariable region(s) of the bacterial 16S gene
Not specified
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
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
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)?
No

Alpha Diversity

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

Signature 1

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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1

Source: Figure 3d

Description: Differential abundance in microbial taxa between healthy controls and COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in COVID-19 patients

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Mediterraneibacter gnavus
unclassified Eggerthella
unclassified Coprobacillus
Thomasclavelia ramosa
Eggerthella lenta
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 2_1_58FAA
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 1_4_56FAA

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Signature 2

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Source: Figure 3d

Description: Differential abundance in microbial taxa between healthy controls and COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in COVID-19 patients

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Alistipes ihumii AP11
Roseburia intestinalis
Burkholderiales bacterium 1_1_47
Anaerobutyricum hallii
Parasutterella excrementihominis
Alistipes indistinctus
Coprobacter fastidiosus
Lachnospira eligens
Bacteroidales bacterium
Bacteroides salyersiae
Odoribacter splanchnicus
Alistipes shahii
Ruminococcus bromii
Phocaeicola massiliensis

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1

Experiment 2


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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Antibiotic-naive COVID-19 patients
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with COVID-19 treated with antibiotics
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
8
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
5

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Data transformation Data transformation applied to microbial abundance measurements prior to differential abundance testing (if any).
Not specified
Statistical test
Linear Regression

Alpha Diversity

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

Signature 1

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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

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Source: Figure 3g

Description: Differential abundance of microbial taxa between antibiotic-naive COVID-19 patients and antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients

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Veillonella parvula
unclassified Coprobacillus
Thomasclavelia ramosa

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Signature 2

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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1

Source: Figure 3g

Description: Differential abundance of microbial taxa between antibiotic-naive COVID-19 patients and antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Antibiotic-treated COVID-19 patients

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Subdoligranulum sp.
Roseburia inulinivorans
Roseburia hominis
Parasutterella excrementihominis
Lachnospiraceae bacterium 2 1 46FAA
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
Dorea formicigenerans
Coprococcus catus
Collinsella aerofaciens
Phocaeicola vulgatus

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1

Experiment 3


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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1, WikiWorks

Differences from previous experiment shown

Subjects

Group 0 name Corresponds to the control (unexposed) group for case-control studies
Mild COVID-19 patients
Group 1 name Corresponds to the case (exposed) group for case-control studies
Severe COVID-19 patients
Group 1 definition Diagnostic criteria applied to define the specific condition / phenotype represented in the case (exposed) group
Patients with severe COVID-19
Group 0 sample size Number of subjects in the control (unexposed) group
3
Group 1 sample size Number of subjects in the case (exposed) group
3

Lab analysis

Statistical Analysis

Statistical test
Mann-Whitney (Wilcoxon)
MHT correction Have statistical tests be corrected for multiple hypothesis testing (MHT)?
Yes


Signature 1

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Curated date: 2021/07/02

Curator: Claregrieve1

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1

Source: Table 2

Description: Differential abundance of microbial taxa between mild and severe COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: increased abundance in Severe COVID-19 patients

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Corynebacterium durum
Rothia mucilaginosa
Enterococcus faecium
Campylobacter gracilis
Corynebacterium glucuronolyticum
Rothia aeria
Alloscardovia omnicolens
Enterococcus avium
Enterococcus casseliflavus
Leuconostoc lactis
Weissella confusa
unclassified Delftia
Eikenella glucosivorans
Campylobacter concisus
Citrobacter freundii
Klebsiella aerogenes
Streptococcus infantis
Megasphaera micronuciformis

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Signature 2

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Curator: Claregrieve1

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Source: Table 2

Description: Differential abundance of microbial taxa between mild and severe COVID-19 patients

Abundance in Group 1: decreased abundance in Severe COVID-19 patients

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Agathobacter rectalis

Revision editor(s): Claregrieve1