{"id":4877,"date":"2023-10-10T18:24:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T23:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4877"},"modified":"2023-10-10T18:24:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T23:24:49","slug":"lower-microbiome-diversity-may-indicate-severe-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/10\/10\/lower-microbiome-diversity-may-indicate-severe-covid-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Microbiome Diversity May Indicate Severe COVID Infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/chest\/106716?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2023-10-10&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202023-10-10&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">MedPageToday<\/a> Patients admitted to the ICU had significant increases in certain bacteria, study shows. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patients with severe COVID-19 infection had lower microbiome diversity, indicating a potential biomarker of disease progression and severity, researchers said here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stool samples taken from patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID showed significant increases\u00a0<em>Parasutterella<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Odoribacter<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Staphylococcus<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Sellimonas<\/em>\u00a0bacteria, reported Irina Timofte, MD, of UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, during the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/chest\" target=\"_blank\">CHEST annual meetingopens in a new tab or window<\/a>\u00a0hosted by the American College of Chest Physicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medpagetoday.com\/meetingcoverage\/chest\/106716?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2023-10-10&amp;eun=g1462072d0r&amp;utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Daily%20Headlines%20Evening%202023-10-10&amp;utm_term=NL_Daily_DHE_dual-gmail-definition\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"bnN W\">bnN W<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MedPageToday Patients admitted to the ICU had significant increases in certain bacteria, study shows. Patients with severe COVID-19 infection had lower microbiome diversity, indicating a potential biomarker of disease progression and severity, researchers said here. Stool samples taken from patients who were admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) with severe COVID showed significant increases\u00a0Parasutterella,\u00a0Odoribacter,\u00a0Staphylococcus, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-considerations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4878,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4877\/revisions\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}