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Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle

SIMPLE SUMMARY: Research on the microorganisms in the reproductive tract of cows has become increasingly popular. Reproductive pathogens, including bacteria, caused uterine disease and decrease fertility. Using sequencing techniques endometrial microbiomes in healthy animals and those with metritis...

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Autores principales: Tasara, Taurai, Meier, Anja Barbara, Wambui, Joseph, Whiston, Ronan, Stevens, Marc, Chapwanya, Aspinas, Bleul, Ulrich
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37048477
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13071221
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author Tasara, Taurai
Meier, Anja Barbara
Wambui, Joseph
Whiston, Ronan
Stevens, Marc
Chapwanya, Aspinas
Bleul, Ulrich
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Meier, Anja Barbara
Wambui, Joseph
Whiston, Ronan
Stevens, Marc
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Bleul, Ulrich
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description SIMPLE SUMMARY: Research on the microorganisms in the reproductive tract of cows has become increasingly popular. Reproductive pathogens, including bacteria, caused uterine disease and decrease fertility. Using sequencing techniques endometrial microbiomes in healthy animals and those with metritis were compared. Our study has identified uterine microbiome profiles that are positively and negatively associated with uterine health. Since it is important to know which bacteria live in healthy or diseased animals, this information will enable the development of treatment options for cows that not only reduce antibiotic use but improve fertility. An improved understanding of changes to the bacteria communities will help to identify animals that can successfully become pregnant again after calving. ABSTRACT: The bovine genital tract harbors a dynamic microbiome. Genital tract microbial communities in healthy animals have been characterized using next-generation sequencing methods showing that microbe compositions differ between the vagina and uterus, more so during the postpartum period. Pre-calving fecal and vaginal, and endometrial swabs at the different postpartum intervals were collected from dairy cows. Microbiomes in these samples were determined based on bacterial 16S amplicon sequencing and compared between healthy (H; n = 10) control animals and cows that developed metritis (M; n = 10) within 21 days postpartum (DPP). Compared to healthy animals the pre-calving fecal and vaginal microbiomes of metritis animals were more abundant in sequences from the phylum Fusobacteria and the bacterial genera such as Escherichia-Shigella and Histophilus. In addition, compared to healthy animals, metritis cows harboured low microbial species diversity in the endometrium, as well as decreasing Proteobacteria and increasing Fusobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes abundances. The greatest taxonomic compositional deviations in endometrial microbial communities between the metritis and health cows were detected between 7 and 10 DPP. There was high taxonomic similarity detected between postpartum endometrial microbiomes and the prepartum vaginal and fecal microbiomes suggesting that colonization through bacteria ascending from the rectum and vagina to the uterine cavity might play a major role in establishing the endometrial microbiome postpartum. A deeper understanding of the establishment and dynamics of postpartum endometrial microbial communities in cows will thus provide crucial basic knowledge to guide the development of genital microbiome manipulation strategies for preventing uterine disease and improving fertility in dairy cows.
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spelling pubmed-100933252023-04-13 Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle Tasara, Taurai Meier, Anja Barbara Wambui, Joseph Whiston, Ronan Stevens, Marc Chapwanya, Aspinas Bleul, Ulrich Animals (Basel) Article SIMPLE SUMMARY: Research on the microorganisms in the reproductive tract of cows has become increasingly popular. Reproductive pathogens, including bacteria, caused uterine disease and decrease fertility. Using sequencing techniques endometrial microbiomes in healthy animals and those with metritis were compared. Our study has identified uterine microbiome profiles that are positively and negatively associated with uterine health. Since it is important to know which bacteria live in healthy or diseased animals, this information will enable the development of treatment options for cows that not only reduce antibiotic use but improve fertility. An improved understanding of changes to the bacteria communities will help to identify animals that can successfully become pregnant again after calving. ABSTRACT: The bovine genital tract harbors a dynamic microbiome. Genital tract microbial communities in healthy animals have been characterized using next-generation sequencing methods showing that microbe compositions differ between the vagina and uterus, more so during the postpartum period. Pre-calving fecal and vaginal, and endometrial swabs at the different postpartum intervals were collected from dairy cows. Microbiomes in these samples were determined based on bacterial 16S amplicon sequencing and compared between healthy (H; n = 10) control animals and cows that developed metritis (M; n = 10) within 21 days postpartum (DPP). Compared to healthy animals the pre-calving fecal and vaginal microbiomes of metritis animals were more abundant in sequences from the phylum Fusobacteria and the bacterial genera such as Escherichia-Shigella and Histophilus. In addition, compared to healthy animals, metritis cows harboured low microbial species diversity in the endometrium, as well as decreasing Proteobacteria and increasing Fusobacteria, Firmicutes, Actinobacteria, and Bacteroidetes abundances. The greatest taxonomic compositional deviations in endometrial microbial communities between the metritis and health cows were detected between 7 and 10 DPP. There was high taxonomic similarity detected between postpartum endometrial microbiomes and the prepartum vaginal and fecal microbiomes suggesting that colonization through bacteria ascending from the rectum and vagina to the uterine cavity might play a major role in establishing the endometrial microbiome postpartum. A deeper understanding of the establishment and dynamics of postpartum endometrial microbial communities in cows will thus provide crucial basic knowledge to guide the development of genital microbiome manipulation strategies for preventing uterine disease and improving fertility in dairy cows. MDPI 2023-03-31 /pmc/articles/PMC10093325/ /pubmed/37048477 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13071221 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title_full Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title_fullStr Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title_full_unstemmed Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title_short Interrogating the Diversity of Vaginal, Endometrial, and Fecal Microbiomes in Healthy and Metritis Dairy Cattle
title_sort interrogating the diversity of vaginal, endometrial, and fecal microbiomes in healthy and metritis dairy cattle
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10093325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37048477
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani13071221
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