Impact of Intestinal Virome on Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Over the last few years, dysbiosis has emerged as a possible trigger of gut inflammation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and a promising therapeutic target. The complex diversity of microbiota was initially highlighted by the powerful new tools in genetics, including next-generation sequencing (NGS). NGS permitted to decipher the composition of bacterial intestinal communities, but also that of the gut virome. Since then, the evidence of a dynamic instability of the enteric virome in IBD has grown considerably. IBD patients present an expansion of bacteriophages (Caudovirales) associated with decreased bacterial diversity. Moreover, gut virome richness seems to differ between Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) patients. These insights open the gate of new diagnostic, predictive, and therapeutic approaches. However, little is known about pediatric IBD gut virome in terms of variability and evolution under the influence of different treatments (exclusive enteral nutrition, immunosuppressive therapy and biologics). The aim of this study is to evaluate the gut family viral diversity and relative abundance of eukaryotes and prokaryotes in paediatric IBD patients