%0 Journal Article
%T Unbalance of intestinal microbiota in atopic children
%A Marco Candela
%A Simone Rampelli
%A Silvia Turroni
%A Marco Severgnini
%A Clarissa Consolandi
%A Gianluca De Bellis
%A Riccardo Masetti
%A Giampaolo Ricci
%A Andrea Pession
%A Patrizia Brigidi
%J BMC Microbiology
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/1471-2180-12-95
%X Nineteen atopic children and 12 healthy controls aged 4¨C14£¿years were enrolled. Stools were collected and the faecal microbiota was characterized by means of the already developed phylogenetic microarray platform, HTF-Microbi.Array, and quantitative PCR. The intestinal microbiota of atopic children showed a significant depletion in members of the Clostridium cluster IV, Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, Akkermansia muciniphila and a corresponding increase of the relative abundance of Enterobacteriaceae.Depleted in key immunomodulatory symbionts, the atopy-associated microbiota can represent an inflammogenic microbial consortium which can contribute to the severity of the disease. Our data open the way to the therapeutic manipulation of the intestinal microbiota in the treatment of atopy by means of pharmaceutical probiotics.
%U http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/12/95/abstract