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. 2019 Jan 11;20(2):283. doi: 10.3390/ijms20020283

Table 1.

Microbiome alterations in different autoimmune conditions respect to healthy subjects.

Autoimmune Conditions Microbiome Alterations in Autoimmunity Respect to Healthy Subjects References
Type I diabetes ↓ bacterial diversity in high-risk children [35,42,43]
Bacteroidetes/Firmicutes ratio [36,44,51]
Bacteroidetes, Clostridium, and Veillonella;
Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Blautia coccoides/Eubacterium rectale group, and Prevotella
[37]
Bacteroides dorei in high-risk children [39]
Bacteroides and ↓ Prevotella in newly diagnosed T1D patients [40]
Bifidobacterium [36,41]
Bacteroides and Clostridium cluster XVa and cluster IV;
Bifidobacterium
[47]
Candida albicans and Enterobacteriaceae [41]
Rheumatoid arthritis ↑ of the pathobiont Prevotella (Prevotella copri) in new-onset RA subjects [107]
Gut and oral microbiome dysbiosis;
Haemophilus spp. and ↑ Lactobacillus salivarius
[56]
↓ gut bacterial diversity and expansion of rare lineage intestinal microbes [57]
Association between periodontal infection due to Porphyromonas gingivalis and RA [54,108]
Fretibacterium, Selenomonas and Prevotella nigrescens [55]
Bacilli and Lactobacillales;
↓ genus Faecalibacterium and the specie Faecalibacterium prausnitzii;
Absence of the genus Flavobacterium and the species Blautia coccoides in RA patients present instead in controls
[62]
Prevotella copri and ↓ Bacteroides in new-onset untreated RA patients [107]
Systemic lupus erythematosus Bacteroidetes/Firmicutes ratio [65]
Association between SLE and periodontal disease;
Dysbiosis of the subgingival microbiota;
↑ subgingival bacterial load;
↓ subgingival microbial diversity at diseased sites
[67]
Fretibacterium, Selenomonas, and Prevotella nigrescens; [109]
Association with periodontal pathogens (Treponema denticola, Porphyromonas gingivalis, Fretibacterium fastidiosum and Tannerella forsythia [109,110]
Behcet’s disease Roseburia and Subdoligranulum genera [79]
Bifidobacterium and Eggerthella genera and ↓ Megamonas and Prevotella genera [81]
Bilophila spp. and several opportunistic pathogens (e.g., Parabacteroides spp. and Paraprevotella spp.);
↓ butyrate-producing bacteria Clostridium spp. and methanogens (Methanoculleus spp. and Methanomethylophilus spp.).
[82]
Inflammatory bowel disease ↓ gut bacterial diversity [68]
↓ diversity in the bacterial phylum Firmicutes faecal;
Clostridium leptum phylogenetic group
[70]
Proteobacteria phylum including Escherichia coli;
Firmicutes phylum was reduced
[69,70,73,111]
Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is associated with an ↑ risk of postoperative recurrence of ileal CD [72]
↓ in several butyrate-producing bacteria species [74,76]
↓ of the genera Bacteroides, Eubacterium, Faecalibacterium and Ruminococcus;
↑ genera Actinomyces and Bifidobacterium;
↓ butyrate-producing bacterial species, as Blautia faecis, Roseburia inulinivorans, Ruminococcus torques, Clostridium lavalense, Bacteroides uniformis, and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii
[76]
Dysbiosis [112]
Caudovirales bacteriophages and fungal composition [113]
Vitiligo Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, and Bacteroidetes [83,114]
↓ bacterial diversity [83]
Psoriasis vulgaris Proteobacteria;
Staphylococci and Propionibacteria
[85]
↓ bacterial diversity;
Corynebacterium, Propionibacterium, Staphylococcus, and Streptococcus;
Cupriavidus, Flavisolibacter, Methylobacterium, and Schlegelella genera.
Association between lesion samples with Firmicutes-associated microbiota
[86]
↓ diversity and ↑ Staphylococcus in psoriatic ear sites [87]
↑ diversity and ↑ heterogeneity
Staphylococcus aureus;
Staphylococcus epidermidis and Propionibacterium acnes
[88]
Atopic dermatitis Faecalibacterium prausnitzii subspecies [93]
Staphylococcus aureus [94]
Propionibacterium acnes and Lawsonella clevelandensis;
Staphylococcus aureus in non-lesional relative to lesional AD patients
[95]
Autoimmune neurological diseases ↓ species belonging to Clostridia XIVa and IV Clusters [101]
Pseudomonas, Mycoplana, Haemophilus, Blautia, and Dorea in relapsing remitting MS patients;
Parabacteroides, Adlercreutzia, and Prevotella genera
[102]
Methanobrevibacter and Akkermansia;
Butyricimonas
[103]
Akkermansia muciniphila and Acinetobacter calcoaceticus;
Parabacteroides distasonis
[106]