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SUBMITTER: Lang S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6925657 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lang Sonja S Duan Yi Y Liu Jinyuan J Torralba Manolito G MG Kuelbs Claire C Ventura-Cots Meritxell M Abraldes Juan G JG Bosques-Padilla Francisco F Verna Elizabeth C EC Brown Robert S RS Vargas Victor V Altamirano Jose J Caballería Juan J Shawcross Debbie D Lucey Michael R MR Louvet Alexandre A Mathurin Philippe P Garcia-Tsao Guadalupe G Ho Samuel B SB Tu Xin M XM Bataller Ramon R Stärkel Peter P Fouts Derrick E DE Schnabl Bernd B
Hepatology (Baltimore, Md.) 20190820 2
Chronic alcohol consumption causes increased intestinal permeability and changes in the intestinal microbiota composition, which contribute to the development and progression of alcohol-related liver disease. In this setting, little is known about commensal fungi in the gut. We studied the intestinal mycobiota in a cohort of patients with alcoholic hepatitis, patients with alcohol use disorder, and nonalcoholic controls using fungal-specific internal transcribed spacer amplicon sequencing of fec ...[more]