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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-16
pubmed:abstractText
Alterations in the human intestinal microbiota are linked to conditions including inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, and obesity. The microbiota also undergoes substantial changes at the extremes of life, in infants and older people, the ramifications of which are still being explored. We applied pyrosequencing of over 40,000 16S rRNA gene V4 region amplicons per subject to characterize the fecal microbiota in 161 subjects aged 65 y and older and 9 younger control subjects. The microbiota of each individual subject constituted a unique profile that was separable from all others. In 68% of the individuals, the microbiota was dominated by phylum Bacteroides, with an average proportion of 57% across all 161 baseline samples. Phylum Firmicutes had an average proportion of 40%. The proportions of some phyla and genera associated with disease or health also varied dramatically, including Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Faecalibacteria. The core microbiota of elderly subjects was distinct from that previously established for younger adults, with a greater proportion of Bacteroides spp. and distinct abundance patterns of Clostridium groups. Analyses of 26 fecal microbiota datasets from 3-month follow-up samples indicated that in 85% of the subjects, the microbiota composition was more like the corresponding time-0 sample than any other dataset. We conclude that the fecal microbiota of the elderly shows temporal stability over limited time in the majority of subjects but is characterized by unusual phylum proportions and extreme variability.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
1091-6490
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
108 Suppl 1
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
4586-91
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-9-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Aged, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Aged, 80 and over, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Bacteria, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Cluster Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Computational Biology, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Feces, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Intestines, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Ireland, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Metagenome, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Phylogeny, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Principal Component Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Species Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:20571116-Statistics, Nonparametric
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Composition, variability, and temporal stability of the intestinal microbiota of the elderly.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Microbiology, University College, Cork, Ireland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't