Alterations in Gut Microbiota of Patients With COVID-19 During Time of Hospitalization

Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infects gastrointestinal tissues, little is known about the roles of gut commensal microbes in susceptibility to and severity of infection. We investigated changes in fecal microbiomes of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection during hospitalization and associations with severity and fecal shedding of virus.We performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing analyses of fecal samples from...