Several studies suggested that dysbacteriosis usually happened in patients with intestinal failure (IF). However, differences of microbiota diversity in small intestine stoma effluents and colonic faeces were rarely studies. Thus this study is aimed to investigate the microbiota compositions and differences of output of small intestine stoma and colon in pediatric IF patients. Fecal samples from IF patients. Each patient received fistula closure in our centre and fecal samples from both small intestinal stoma and colon were collected. Fecal microbial compositions were determined by high-throughput sequencing.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
60
Shanghai Xinhua Hospital, affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine
Shanghai, China
Microbiota diversity and composition clarified by 16s rRNA sequencing
DNA of gut microbiota will be extracted. Then purified DNA amplicons are pooled in equimolar and paired-end sequenced (2 × 250) on an Illumina MiSeq platform. Raw Fastq files will be de-multiplexed, quality-filtered using QIIME (version 1.17). Operational taxonomic units (OTUs) will be next clustered with 97% similarity cutoff using UPARSE version 7.1 (http://drive5.com/ uparse/) and chimeric sequences will be identified and removed using UCHIME (http://drive5.com/index.htm). The phylogenetic affiliation of each 16S rRNA gene sequence is analyzed by RDP Classifier (http:// rdp.cme.msu.edu/) against the silva (SSU117/119)16S rRNA. Sobs index and Chao index will be used to evaluate the microbiota diversity. Microbiota composition will be identified on different levels including phylum, family and genus.
Time frame: 1)Samples collection: one day before patients are discharged from hospital; 2)DNA extraction: within one week after samples collection; 3)Sequencing and data analyzing: within one month after DNA extract
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