Antimicrobial drug use in the first decade of life influences saliva microbiota diversity and composition
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Antimicrobial drug use in the first decade of life influences saliva microbiota diversity and composition Sajan C. Raju1,2, Heli Viljakainen1,3, Rejane A. O. Figueiredo1,2, Pertti J. Neuvonen4, Johan G. Eriksson1,5,6, Elisabete Weiderpass7 and Trine B. Rounge1,2,8,9*
Abstract Background: The human microbiota contributes to health and well-being. Antimicrobials (AM) have an immediate effect on microbial diversity and composition in the gut, but next to nothing is known about their long-term contribution to saliva microbiota. Our objectives were to investigate the long-term impact of AM use on saliva microbiota diversity and composition in preadolescents. We compared the lifetime effects by gender and AMs. We used data from 808 randomly selected children in the Finnish Health In Teens (Fin-HIT) cohort with register-based data on AM purchases from the Social Insurance Institution of Finland. Saliva microbiota was assessed with 16S rRNA (V3-V4) sequencing. The sequences were aligned to the SILVA ribosomal RNA database and classified and counted using the mothur pipeline. Associations between AM use and alpha-diversity (Shannon index) were identified with linear regression, while associations between beta-diversity (Bray-Curtis dissimilarity) and low, medium or high AM use were identified with PERMANOVA. Results: Of the children, 53.6% were girls and their mean age was 11.7 (0.4) years. On average, the children had 7.4 (ranging from 0 to 41) AM prescriptions during their lifespan. The four most commonly used AMs were amoxicillin (n = 2622, 43.7%), azithromycin (n = 1495, 24.9%), amoxicillin-clavulanate (n = 1123, 18.7%) and phenoxymethylpenicillin (n = 408, 6.8%). A linear inverse association was observed between the use of azithromycin and Shannon index (b − 0.015, p value = 0.002) in all children, the effect was driven by girls (b − 0.032, p value = 0.001), while not present in boys. Dissimilarities were marked between high, medium and low users of all AMs combined, in azithromycin users specifically, and in boys with amoxicillin use. Amoxicillin and amoxicillinclavulanate use was associated with the largest decrease in abundance of Rikenellaceae. AM use in general and phenoxymethylpenicillin specifically were associated with a decrease of Paludibacter and pathways related to amino acid degradations differed in proportion between high and low AM users. (Continued on next page)
* Correspondence: [email protected] 1 Folkhälsan Research Center, Topeliuksenkatu 20, 00250 Helsinki, Finland 2 Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Full list of author information is available at the end of the article
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