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Alcohol and tobacco consumption affects bacterial richness in oral cavity mucosa biofilms

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Microbiology, October 2014
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Title
Alcohol and tobacco consumption affects bacterial richness in oral cavity mucosa biofilms
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BMC Microbiology, October 2014
DOI 10.1186/s12866-014-0250-2
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Andrew Maltez Thomas, Frederico Omar Gleber-Netto, Gustavo Ribeiro Fernandes, Maria Amorim, Luisa Fernanda Barbosa, Ana Luisa Noronha Francisco, Arthur Guerra de Andrade, João Carlos Setubal, Luiz Paulo Kowalski, Diana Noronha Nunes, Emmanuel Dias-Neto

Abstract

BackgroundToday there are more than 2 billion alcohol users and about 1.3 billion tobacco users worldwide. The chronic and heavy use of these two substances is at the heart of numerous diseases and may wreak havoc on the human oral microbiome. This study delves into the changes that alcohol and tobacco may cause on biofilms of the human oral microbiome. To do so, we used swabs to sample the oral biofilm of 22 subjects; including 9 control-individuals with no or very low consumption of alcohol and no consumption of tobacco, 7 who were chronic and heavy users of both substances and 6 active smokers that reported no significant alcohol consumption. DNA was extracted from swabs and the V1 region of the 16S rRNA gene was PCR amplified and sequenced using the Ion Torrent PGM platform, generating 3.7 million high quality reads. DNA sequences were clustered and OTUs were assigned using the ARB SILVA database and Qiime.ResultsWe found no differences in species diversity and evenness among the groups. However, we found a significant decrease in species richness in only smokers and in smokers/drinkers when compared to controls. We found that Neisseria abundance was significantly decreased in both groups when compared to controls. Smokers had significant increases in Prevotella and Capnocytophaga and reductions in Granulicatella, Staphylococcus, Peptostreptococcus and Gemella when compared to the two other groups. Controls showed higher abundance of Aggregibacter, whilst smokers/drinkers had lower abundances of Fusobacteria. Samples from only smokers clustered closer together than to controls and smokers/drinkers, and also had a significant reduction in inter-group dissimilarity distances, indicating a more homogenous group than controls.ConclusionsOur results indicate that the continued use of tobacco or alcohol plus tobacco significantly reduces bacterial richness, which apparently leads to a reduction in inter-group variability, turning the respective biofilms into a more homogenous microenvironment in terms of bacterial community composition, with possible consequences for human oral diseases.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 1 <1%
Unknown 154 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 26 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 15%
Researcher 17 11%
Student > Master 16 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 6%
Other 27 17%
Unknown 36 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 35 23%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 29 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 13 8%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 4 3%
Other 18 12%
Unknown 42 27%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 31 December 2014.
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#2,515,423
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Microbiology
#4
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