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. 2021 Aug 24;22(17):9139. doi: 10.3390/ijms22179139

Table 2.

Alterations in gut microbiota in metabolic disorders and IBD.

Metabolic Disorders IBD
In obesity
No difference in bacterial diversity [156]
(phylum) ↑Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes [155,156], ↑Proteobacteria * [162]
(class) ↓Clostridia * [162]
(order) ↓Clostridiales * [162]
(family) ↑Lachnospiraceae [160,162], ↑Bacilli, Enterobacteriaceae *, Lactobacillaceae, Streptococcaceae [162], ↓Christensenellaceae [158,162], ↓Clostridiaceae *, Dehalobacteriaceae, Ruminococcaceae * [162]
(genus) ↑Bacillus, opportunistic pathogens (Escherichia *, Fusobacterium, Shigella *) [161], ↑ Fusobacterium, Ruminococcus * [160], ↑Blautia * [162], ↓Bifidobacterium *, Faecalibacterium * [161], ↓Oscillospira [158,162],
(species) ↑Lactobacillus reuteri [157], ↑Bacteroides fragilis, Lactobacillus spp. [159], ↓Bifidobacterium animalis [157],
Methanobrevibacter smithii [157,158], ↓Akkermansia muciniphila [90], ↓Bifidobacterium spp. * [159]

In T2D
No difference in bacterial diversity [163]
(order) ↑Clostridiales [164], ↓Clostridiales* [165]
(genus) ↑Lactobacillus [164], ↑Dorea, Ruminococcus *, Sutterella and Streptococcus (in prediabetes) [165],
Ruminococcus * [165,166,167], ↑Blautia * [166,168], ↑Fusobacterium [169], ↑pro-inflammatory bacteria (Escherichia *, Enterobacter, Methanobrevibacter, Treponema) [170], ↓Bacteroides [166,167,168,171], ↓Roseburia * [164,166,167,172], ↓Clostridium [164,165], ↓Bifidobacterium * [167,169], ↓anti-inflammatory (Anaerostipes, Blautia, Coprococcus, Lachnospira, Phascolarctobacterium, Roseburia *) [170]
(Species) ↑opportunistic pathogens (Bacteroides caccae, Clostridium hathewayi, C. ramosum, C. symbiosum, Eggerthella lenta, E. coli *) [163],
↑opportunistic pathogens (Clostridium clostridioforme, C. bolteae, C. hathewayi, Streptococcus mutans), Lactobacillus gasseri [164], ↑genes belong to Akkermansia muciniphila [163], ↓Faecalibacterium prausnitzii * [163,164,166], ↓butyrate-producing bacteria (Clostridiales sp. SS3/4, Eubacterium rectale, F. prausnitzii *, Roseburia intestinalis *, Roseburia inulinivorans *) [163], ↓Akkermansia muciniphila [90,165,166,173]
(in mesenteric adipose tissue) ↓Bacterial diversity,
↑Enterobacteriaceae *, ↓Faecalibacterium * [174](in plasma) ↑Enterobacteriaceae * [174]

In NAFLD
↓Bacterial diversity [175]
(phylum) ↑Proteobacteria * [176,177,178],
↑Verrucomicrobia [178](class) ↑Bacteroidia [179],
↓Clostridia * [179](family) ↑Enterobacteriaceae * [180],
↑Kiloniellaceae, Pasteurellaceae, Veillonellaceae * [176], ↓Rikenellaceae [175,180], ↓Bifidobacteriaceae [180], ↓Ruminococcaceae [176,179,180]
(genus) ↑Dorea [175,176], ↑Peptoniphilus [175,180],
Escherichia * [178,180], ↑Ruminococcus * [175,181],
Bacteroides [181], ↑Bradyrhizobium, Anaerococcus, Peptoniphilus [175], ↑Acidaminococcus, Akkermansia, Eggerthella, Flavonifractor [178], ↓Coprococcus [178,179,180],
Eubacterium [178,180],
Faecalibacterium * [180], ↓Prevotella [178,181], ↓Anaerosporobacter [179], ↓Oscillospira [175]
(species) ↑ Clostridium coccoides, E. coli * [180],
Propionibacterium acnes [175,181], ↓Bacteroides fragilis [181]
In both CD and UC
↓Bacterial diversity [182,183](phylum) ↓Bacteroidetes [182,184],
↓Firmicutes [182,184]
class) ↓Clostridia * [182],
↑Gammaproteobacteria [182]
(family) ↑Bacteroidaceae [185],
↓Ruminococcaceae * [182,185,186],
↓Clostridiaceae * [185](genus) ↑Escherichia *, (transcription levels of) Blautia * and Lachnoclostridium [187],
Bacteroides, Bifidobacterium *, Lactobacillus [182], ↓ Alistipes, Faecalibacterium *, Roseburia *, Subdoligranulum [187]
(species) ↑Bacteriodes fragilis, B. vulgatus [185,188], ↑E. coli *, Klebsiella pneumonia [185,189], ↑Alistipes putredinis, Roseburia intestinalis * [188], ↑(mucolytic) Ruminococcus gnavus * [188,189,190,191],
Ruminococcus torques [189], ↑(transcription levels of) Clostridium bolteae, Clostridium hathewayi, and Ruminococcus gnavus * [189],
↓(butyrate-producing) Faecalibacterium prausnitzii *, Roseburia hominis * [15,182,185,189,192,193,194]

In CD
(phylum) ↑Proteobacteria * [195],
↓Bacteroidetes [196]
(order) ↑Clostridiales [197], ↓Bacteroidales, Clostridiales *, Erysipelotrichales [198]
(family) ↑Enterobacteriaceae * [182], ↑Fusobacteriaceae, Pasteurellacaea, Veillonellaceae * [198], ↑Ruminococcaceae [197]
(genus) ↑Escherichia * [185,192], ↑Enterococcus, Klebsiella, Veillonella [192], ↑Shigella * [185],
Faecalibacterium, Fusobacterium [197], ↓ Akkermansia, Alistipes, Coprococcus, Dorea, Eubacterium, Odoribacter, Parabacteroides, Prevotella, Roseburia *, Ruminococcus [192]
(species) ↓Bifidobacterium longum [185], ↓Faecalibacterium prausnitzii *, Roseburia hominis * [189]

In UC
(phylum) ↑Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria * [199], ↓Bacteroidetes, Verrucomicrobia [199]
(order) ↓butyrate-producers of Clostridiales * [200]
(family) ↑Enterobacteriaceae * [198], ↑Staphylococcaceae, Streptococcaceae, Veillonellaceae [199], ↓Akkermansiaceae, Bacteroidaceae [199]
(genus) ↑Bacillus, Escherichia *, Shigella *, Peptostreptococcus, Veillonella [199], ↓Akkermansia, Bifidobacterium *, Faecalibacterium * [199]
(species) ↓Faecalibacterium prausnitzii *, Roseburia hominis * [194]

* Possible links between metabolic disorders and IBD.