Mucosal microbiome of surgically treated terminal ileal Crohn's disease.

Crohn's disease (CD) is associated with changes in the microbiome. The role of these changes and their precise association with disease course and activity remain ambiguous. In this prospective single-center study, the mucosal microbiome of surgical CD and non-CD patients was compared at the time of surgery. Microbial analyses were individually performed for ileal and colonic tissue samples obtained during surgery using 16S-rRNA-gene amplicon sequencing. Three groups out of the 46 included patients were formed: 1) a study group of CD of patients who received ileocecal resection due to CD involvement (CD study, n=10); 2) a control group of non-CD of patients who received intestinal resection due to indications other than CD (non-CD control, n=27); and 3) a second control group of CD who underwent resection of the intestine not affected by CD (CD non-affected control, n=9). Species richness and Shannon diversity were not different between all formed groups and regions analyzed (p>0.05). Several significant taxonomic differences were seen at the phylum-, order-, and genus-levels between the formed groups, such as a decrease of

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Authors PM and RS were employed by the company Labor Berlin – Charité Vivantes GmbH. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.