Effect of Additional Clostridium butyricum on the Intestinal Flora of Chronic Hepatitis B Patients Treated with Entecavir.

Infect Dis Ther

Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institution of Digestive Diseases, Tongji Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, 389 Xin Cun Road, Shanghai, 200065, China.

Published: September 2021

Introduction: To explore the influence of intestinal flora on the occurrence, development and antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis B (CHB), 16S rDNA amplification sequencing was performed to investigate the intestinal flora in CHB patients treated with entecavir (ETV) and Clostridium butyricum (CB).

Methods: CHB patients were divided into the ETV group (treatment with ETV alone) and ETV + CB group (treatment with ETV and CB). After 8-week treatment, feces samples were collected and processed for 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing; blood samples were collected for the biochemical, immunologic and virologic evaluations, which were compared between groups.

Results: ETV treatment for 8 weeks significantly decreased the serum levels of alanine aminotransferase (ALT), interleukin-6 (IL-6), IL-8, tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) and HBV DNA compared to those before treatment, but there were no marked differences between the ETV group and ETV + CB group. The intestinal flora changed significantly in the CHB patients after ETV + CB treatment: there were marked differences in 13 unique species before treatment and 4 unique species after ETV + CB treatment; at the phylum level, the top five bacteria with significant difference between patients before treatment and ETV + CB patients were Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, Cyanobacteria, Euryarchaeota and Synergistetes. There were significant differences in 25 unique species in the ETV group and 4 unique species in the ETV + CB group; at the phylum level, the top five bacteria with significant difference between ETV patients and ETV + CB patients were Actinobacteria, Fusobacteria, Proteobacteria, Saccharibacteria and Synergistetes.

Conclusion: ETV treatment improves the serum biochemical, immunologic and virologic variables, but additional CB fails to further improve these variables. Of note, additional CB affects the intestinal flora in the CHB patients treated with ETV.

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