Changes of the bacterial composition in duodenal fluid from patients with liver cirrhosis and molecular bacterascites

Abstract Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and compositional changes of intestinal microbiota are pathomechanistic factors in liver cirrhosis leading to bacterial translocation and infectious complications. We analyzed the quantity and composition of duodenal bacterial DNA (bactDNA) in relation...

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Main Authors: Jim Höppner, Sandra Krohn, Ellen H. A. van den Munckhof, René Kallies, Adam Herber, Katharina Zeller, Jan Tünnemann, Madlen Matz-Soja, Antonis Chatzinotas, Stephan Böhm, Albrecht Hoffmeister, Thomas Berg, Cornelius Engelmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-12-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-49505-3