RESEARCH ARTICLE Biliary Microbiota, Gallstone Disease and Infection with Opisthorchis felineus Irina V. Saltykova1,2,3*, Vjacheslav A. Petrov1, Maria D. Logacheva4, Polina G. Ivanova1, Nikolay V. Merzlikin5, Alexey E. Sazonov1, Ludmila M. Ogorodova6, Paul J. Brindley3 1 Central Research Laboratory, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 2 Laboratory of Catalytic Research, Tomsk State University, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 3 Research Center for Neglected Diseases of Poverty, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, School of Medicine & Health Sciences, George Washington University, Washington, D.C., United States of America, 4 Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, Moscow, a11111 Russian Federation, 5 Surgical diseases department of Pediatric faculty, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation, 6 Department of Faculty Pediatrics, Siberian State Medical University, Tomsk, Russian Federation *
[email protected] Abstract OPEN ACCESS Citation: Saltykova IV, Petrov VA, Logacheva MD, Ivanova PG, Merzlikin NV, Sazonov AE, et al. (2016) Biliary Microbiota, Gallstone Disease and Infection with Opisthorchis felineus. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 10(7): Background e0004809. doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0004809 There is increasing interest in the microbiome of the hepatobiliary system. This study inves- Editor: Makedonka Mitreva, University of tigated the influence of infection with the fish-borne liver fluke, Opisthorchis felineus on the Washington School of Public Health, UNITED biliary microbiome of residents of the Tomsk region of western Siberia. STATES Received: March 21, 2016 Accepted: June 6, 2016 Methodology/Principal Findings Published: July 22, 2016 Samples of bile were provided by 56 study participants, half of who were infected with O. Copyright: © 2016 Saltykova et al.