China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine ›› 2023, Vol. 50 ›› Issue (3): 1129-1139.doi: 10.16431/j.cnki.1671-7236.2023.03.027

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Research Progress on the Interaction Mechanism Between Parasites and Gut Microbiota

LI Mengrui1,2, LI Yongxia1,2, LIN Xiaofeng1,2, HUANG Xiaohang1,2, HUANG Zhijian1,2, YIN Guangwen1,2   

  1. 1. College of Animal Science(Bee Science College), Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University, Fuzhou 350002, China;
    2. Fujian Animal Drug Engineering Laboratory, Fujian 350002, China
  • Received:2022-09-24 Online:2023-03-05 Published:2023-03-02

Abstract: Gut microbiota is one of the important parts of animal organism,and it has coexisted with the body in the long process of evolution.Many parasites also parasitize the intestinal tract of the host,gut microbiota and parasites interact with each other.Gut microbiota can not only affect the complex processes of parasites invading,colonizing and causing disease to the host,but also regulate the intestinal health of animals,and play an important role in antagonizing the infection of foreign pathogens such as bacteria,viruses and intestinal protozoa.It plays an important role in maintaining the homeostasis of intestinal environment.Gut microbiota can affect host immunity through itself and its metabolites,so as to regulate the body’s own inflammatory response and resist intestinal parasite infection.Gut microbiota can also affect parasite invasion through space occupying effect and changes in the structure of intestinal microflora.Existing studies have found that the effects of parasite infection on gut microbiota homeostasis can not only have negative effects such as mechanical injury and inflammatory reaction,but also have beneficial regulation on the host body.After infecting the host,some parasites can activate the body-related immune response and stimulate the body to release anti-inflammatory factors,which can help the intestinal tract resist bacterial infection and reduce the inflammatory response.The excretion and secretion of some parasites can affect the structure of gut microbiota in the host body and act as an immunomodulator.In recent years,the interaction mechanism between microbiota and host pathogen antagonism has become a hot spot,which has been widely concerned by scholars at home and abroad.As a result,parasite therapy and gut microbiota transplantation have also become a research hotspot.The metabolites of parasites and intestinal flora also have certain effects on the intestinal environment and homeostasis,but the specific mechanism of their effects is not clear.There are few reports on the interaction mechanism between parasites and gut microbiota in China.The author mainly reviewed the interaction between parasites and gut microbiota in order to provide reference for researchers to carry out relevant research.

Key words: parasites; gut microbiota; interaction; infection

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