| AAD | antibiotic-associated diarrhea |
| BMI | body mass index |
| CD | Crohn’s disease |
| EED | environmental enteric dysfunction |
| FMT | fecal microbiota transplantation |
| HOMA-IR | homeostatic model assessment of insulin resistance |
| IBD | inflammatory bowel diseases |
| IBS | irritable bowel syndrome |
| LPK | Lactobacillus plantarum K50 |
| LPS | lipopolysaccharides |
| RYGB | Roux-en-Y gastric bypass |
| SCFAs | short-chain fatty acids |
| sIgA | secretory immunoglubulin A |
| UC | ulcerative colitis |
| WHO | World Health Organization |