Helicobacter pylori and its relationship with variations of gut microbiota in asymptomatic children between 6 and 12 years

Araceli Benavides-Ward; Fernando Vasquez-Achaya; Fernando Mazulis; Numan Urteaga; Juana del Valle-Mendoza; Wilmer Silva-Caso; Miguel Angel Aguilar-Luis

doi:10.1186/s13104-018-3565-5

Helicobacter pylori and its relationship with variations of gut microbiota in asymptomatic children between 6 and 12 years

Benavides-Ward, Araceli; Vasquez-Achaya, Fernando; Mazulis,Fernando; Urteaga, Numan; del Valle-Mendoza, Juana; Silva-Caso, Wilmer; Aguilar-Luis, Miguel Angel · Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) (2018) · DOI: 10.1186/s13104-018-3565-5

Resumen

Objective: To determine the variations in the composition of the intestinal microbiota in asymptomatic children infected with Helicobacter pylori in comparison with children without the infection. Results: Children infected with H. pylori doubled their probability of presenting 3 of 9 genera of bacteria from the gut microbiota, including: Proteobacteria (p = 0.008), Clostridium (p = 0.040), Firmicutes (p = 0.001) and Prevotella (p = 0.006) in comparison to patients without the infection. We performed a nutritional assessment and found that growth stunting was statistically significantly higher in patients infected with H. pylori (p = 0.046).

Instituciones: Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas