Abstract
Purpose :
To identified the characteristics of gut microbiota in patients with acute anterior uveitis.
Methods :
Fecal DNA were extracted from 78 fecal samples (17 acute anterior uveitis (AAU) patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS)(AAU+AS+ patients), 21 AAU patients without AS (AAU+AS- patients) and 40 sex- and gender matched healthy controls) and then sequencing by high-throughput 16S rRNA gene.
Results :
There was a significant decrease in annotated species numbers and bacterial diversity between AAU+AS+ patients and healthy-controls.There was a significant distance as beta diversity between AAU+AS+ patients and healthy controls.A linear discriminant analysis of bacterial taxa showed that the abundance of Lachnospiracea_incertae_sedis, Blautia and Roseburia were significant decrease in AAU+AS- patients as compared with healthy controls.
Conclusions :
Composition of gut microbiota in AAU patients was totally different from healthy controls.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.