Xiaobo Hu, Haiyu Wang, Bo Yu, Jia Yu, Haifeng Lu, Junyi Sun, Ying Sun, Yawen Zou, Hong Luo, Zhaohai Zeng, Shanshuo Liu, Yan Jiang, Zhongwen Wu, Zhigang Ren
The oral bacteriome, gut bacteriome, and gut mycobiome are associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). However, the oral fungal microbiota in COVID-19 remains unclear. This article aims to characterize the oral mycobiome in COVID-19 and recovered patients. Tongue coating specimens of 71 COVID-19 patients, 36 suspected cases (SCs), 22 recovered COVID-19 patients, 36 SCs who recovered, and 132 controls from Henan are collected and analyzed using internal transcribed spacer sequencing. The richness of oral fungi is increased in COVID-19 versus controls, and beta diversity analysis reveals separate fungal communities for COVID-19 and control...
April 29, 2023: Advanced Science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)