著者
Antonio TURSI Paola MASTROMARINO Daniela CAPOBIANCO Walter ELISEI Giuseppe CAMPAGNA Marcello PICCHIO GianMarco GIORGETTI Federica FABIOCCHI Giovanni BRANDIMARTE
出版者
BMFH Press
雑誌
Bioscience of Microbiota, Food and Health (ISSN:21863342)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.42, no.1, pp.1-2, 2023 (Released:2023-01-01)
参考文献数
7
被引用文献数
2

In this letter, assessment of the amount of fecal Faecalibacterium prausnitzii in symptomatic uncomplicated diverticular disease (SUDD) is described. Among 44 consecutive patients, comprising 15 SUDD patients, 13 patients with asymptomatic diverticulosis (AD), and 16 healthy controls (HC), the fecal amount of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii was not found to be significantly different between HC, AD and SUDD subjects (p=0.871). Moreover, its count in the HC microbiota (−4.57 ± 2.15) was lower compared with those in the AD (−4.11 ± 1.03) and SUDD subjects (−4.03 ± 1.299). This behavior seems to be different from that occurring in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and similar to that of other mucin-degrading species in a SUDD setting.