Gut microbiota compositional and functional fingerprint in patients with alcohol use disorder and alcohol-associated liver disease.
Giovanni AddoloratoFrancesca Romana PonzianiTommaso DionisiCarolina MosoniGabriele A VassalloLuisa SestitoValentina PetitoAnna PiccaEmanuele MarzettiClaudia TarliAntonio MirijelloMaria Assunta ZoccoLoris R LopetusoMariangela AntonelliMaria M RandoFrancesco Paroni SterbiniBrunella PosteraroMaurizio SanguinettiAntonio GasbarriniPublished in: Liver international : official journal of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (2020)
AUD patients present a specific gut microbial fingerprint, associated with increased endotoxaemia, systemic inflammatory status and functional alterations that may be involved in the progression of the AALD and in the pathogenesis of AUD.