Longitudinal Relationship Between the Gut Microbiota Variation and Diversity and Gut Graft-versus-Host Disease (GVHD) Following Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT)—Case Series

Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation (HCT) offers children with life-threatening diseases a chance at survival. Complications from graft-versus-host disease (GVHD, Stages 0-4) represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality which has been recently associated with gut dysbiosis the adult HCT population. Here, our objective was to conduct a prospective, longitudinal cohort study in nine pediatric allogeneic HCT participants by collecting longitudinally post-HCT stool specimens up to 1 year. Stool microbiota analyses showed that allogeneic HCT and antibiotic therapy lead to acute shifts in the diversity of the gut microbiota with those experiencing stages 3-4 gut GVHD having significantly greater microbiota variation over time when compared to control participants (p =0.007). Pre-HCT microbiota diversity trended towards an inverse relationship with gut microbiota stability over time, however, this did not reach statistical significance (p=0.05). Future large prospective studies are necessary to elucidate the mechanisms underlying these dynamic changes in the gut microbiota following pediatric allogeneic HCT.

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