

Such antibiotic-associated transformations have been linked to changes in the levels of hormones, colonic short-chain fatty acids and cholesterol, thus leading to increased adiposity.

In addition, exposure to antibiotics irreversibly changes microbiota composition and host response to some microbial signals. Nevertheless, their efficacy wanes over time as microbes develop resistance to counter the drugs. Many new antibiotics were designed to target different bacterial pathways. In the USA alone, over 2.8 million people get severe infections from antibiotic-resistant pathogens, resulting in about 35 000 deaths annually. Globally, antibiotic resistance (ABR) has emerged as one of the biggest threats to public health. The study suggests that discontinuing the use of some antibiotics (such as ticarcillin-clavulanate and ceftriaxone for infants and mothers, respectively) and targeting the genes that appear to allow a particular pathogen to proliferate may help prevent many of the acute and adverse long-term sequelae seen among preterm neonates. The study also highlighted several infant and maternal variables that affected eubacterial dysbiosis. The analyses highlighted the role of antibacterial resistance (ABR) genes in bacterial survival strategies used by different eubacteria in the microbiome to respond to the administered antibiotics. The preterm infants were administered a variety of antibiotics during their early months. The proposed pipeline was used to re-analyse a preterm infant gut microbiome dataset.
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In addition, it demonstrates how causal discovery techniques can be applied to the combination of omics profiles and clinical data to study survival strategies against antibiotics. This study expands the field by introducing the estimation of replication rates of the eubacteria with circular chromosomes (metareplicome) of the microbiome. Prior efforts have focused on computing eubacterial community and antibiotic resistance genes (metaresistome) profiles from whole metagenome sequencing (WMS) data. This paper presents a novel pipeline for microbiome analysis. These organisms often contribute to the harmful long-term sequelae seen in these young infants. The study highlights the specific antibacterial resistance genes that may contribute to exponential cell division in the presence of antibiotics for various pathogens, namely Klebsiella pneumoniae, Citrobacter freundii, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Veilonella parvula and Clostridium perfringens. Our analysis suggests that the current treatment stratagem contributes to preterm infant gut dysbiosis, allowing a proliferation of pathobionts. MeRRCI was applied to an infant gut microbiome data set to investigate the microbial community’s response to antibiotics. MeRRCI combines efficient computation of the metagenome (bacterial relative abundance), metaresistome (antimicrobial gene abundance) and metareplicome (replication rates), and integrates environmental variables (metadata) for causality analysis using Bayesian networks. A novel scalable pipeline called MeRRCI (Metagenome, metaResistome, and metaReplicome for Causal Inferencing) was developed. Another relatively new approach is the application of causal inferencing to analyse microbiome data that goes beyond correlational studies. Despite their availability, the replication rate profiles (metareplicome) have not been fully exploited in microbiome analyses. The same data can be used to determine the replication rate of all eubacterial taxa with circular chromosomes. The use of whole metagenomic data to infer the relative abundance of all its microbes is well established.
